Patient Stories

The Birkebeiner cross-country ski race in Hayward, Wisconsin, is one that Kurt “Charlie” Steil has skied many times (24, in fact). He even finished in[...]

Look at the month of March 2015 Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Center calendar, and you’ll see the smiling face of 11-year-old Melanie Gates of Rochester,[...]

It’s not unusual to see a patient playing piano in a Mayo Clinic lobby. It may be a little out of the ordinary, however, to[...]

At first, Kelly Barnard just thought she had a bad stomach ache. She’d felt “little twinges of pain” in her stomach before, she tells the[...]

Staying upright can be an adventure for any toddler. When Dustin Bennett was just 18 months old, his adoptive mother, Linda Bennett, knew the difficulty[...]

Crista Procopio had seen so many doctors and had become so frustrated with the lack of a diagnosis for her symptoms that she almost threw[...]

April McKeeth assumed her daughter, Delilah Boberg, was acting like a typical 7-year-old when she seemed to ignore her calls. However, she soon learned that[...]

Valentine’s Day will mark a special anniversary for Hannah (Garry) Lechner. But it’s not the kind you might expect. This anniversary is about perseverance, determination,[...]

Buck Owens and Olly Murs, and many songwriters in between, have made the idea of our hearts skipping a beat sound romantic. For Carol Strittmater[...]

It seemed like a small gesture. It was 1948, and a young boy was biding time in the hospital lobby at Saint Marys in Rochester,[...]