Patient Stories

After geneticists at Mayo Clinic's Rochester campus diagnosed her son, Bo, with Angelman syndrome 14 years ago, Stephanie Hays found that there wasn't much help[...]

By In the Loop • December 15, 2015

Two minutes and 50 seconds. It doesn't sound like much time. But imagine your child wasn't breathing. Every second would feel like an eternity. Sarah[...]

By In the Loop • December 10, 2015

Shortly after his late wife, Babbette, died of cancer in November 2014, Don Jaquish found one of the many journal entries she'd written during her nine[...]

By In the Loop • December 3, 2015

While most people his age were preparing for the future, 23-year-old Todd Blake was preparing for something else entirely: the end of his life. At[...]

By In the Loop • December 1, 2015

Francisco Corripio first came to Mayo Clinic's Rochester campus in 2012 while waiting for a kidney transplant. "I'd come to Mayo to try to get[...]

By In the Loop • November 17, 2015

Debbie Daugherty was driving home from work shortly before Christmas a couple years back when she noticed a U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots program[...]

By In the Loop • November 10, 2015

Nicole Skaro knew something wasn't right when the Emergency Department physician came in a fourth time to look at photos she'd taken of her young[...]

By In the Loop • November 5, 2015

On the day he was born, Marcus Nichols had already beaten the odds. Marcus and his twin, Mathieu, shared a single amniotic sac — a[...]

By In the Loop • November 5, 2015

Robert Key, M.D., and his brother Tim were fishing on Caribou Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness shortly after sunrise on Sept. 21,[...]

By In the Loop • November 3, 2015

Doug Smith and Kelly Higgins have been teammates — in sports and in life — since college. So when doctors told Kelly he had a[...]

By In the Loop • October 29, 2015