Patient Stories

  On July 4, 1939, baseball great Lou Gehrig said good-bye to the game and his fans after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a[...]

By • April 29, 2014

It's been said, sometimes even by us, that there are so many great stories around Mayo Clinic, it can be hard to know where to[...]

By • April 24, 2014

There was a time when Cesar Alvarez was the one doing the rescuing. But the retired Los Angeles firefighter now focuses his attention on the[...]

By Elizabeth Harty • April 17, 2014

Leave it to Facebook to turn a simple way to pass time between appointments into a viral effort to raise funds for pediatric cancer research. As[...]

By Elizabeth Harty • April 17, 2014

Had Jezzabella Snow been born a few years earlier, her life might be very different. Her mother, Jamie Snow, tells the Mankato Free Press that[...]

By Elizabeth Harty • April 15, 2014

Cathy Emerson is hoping her third transplant will be the charm. Her first came in 1999, when she received a new pancreas in an attempt[...]

By Elizabeth Harty • April 15, 2014

It all started with a pesky, persistent pimple (or that's what she presumed it was, anyway). Deidre Tennyson had a mole on her left cheek[...]

By Elizabeth Harty • April 10, 2014

The diagnosis came when April Rubeck was 25 weeks pregnant. Doctors sat her down and informed her and her husband, Ryan, that their unborn son,[...]

By • April 8, 2014

The call came while Bree Hanson was in study hall, just days after she'd found the perfect prom dress. A junior at Tioga High School in[...]

By • April 3, 2014

When his doctor found a cancerous tumor in Rodney Nelson's eye during a routine exam, he and his wife, Teri, could have taken their referral[...]

By In the Loop • March 18, 2014