January 10, 2023
Two days after Christmas in 2019, 13-year-old Saqora from Oneida, began having extreme pain in her side and under her arms. She felt unusually tired. Not long after telling her mom how she felt...
September 4, 2020
Debbie Olsonoski’s breast cancer diagnosis in January 2016, at the age of 59, came as a shock. There was some history of breast cancer in her family, but it didn’t affect her aunts...
September 4, 2020
Children may experience fevers frequently throughout early childhood, but when they spike a high fever it can make any parent worry.
September 4, 2020
A pregnancy comes with all sorts of feelings, hopes and dreams for a mom-to-be. But mostly, a parent wishes for good health for their child.
May 21, 2020
Due to have a baby in 2017, Kelly Hayes knew HSHS St. Vincent Hospital is where she wanted when it was time to welcome her second little bundle of joy into the world. She had delivered her now 4...
May 21, 2020
Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016, then 15-year-old Sten was enjoying summer with friends in Door County. What started as a day of fun on the water, quickly turned into a day that would change his life.
May 21, 2020
Three in one million. Those were the chances that 2-year-old Quentin’s face rash and weak muscles were an autoimmune disease known as juvenile dermatomyositis, or JDM.
May 21, 2020
When Melissa VanStraten of De Pere went to her 27-week check up with her Prevea obstetrician, Dr. Erich Metzler, she was told if she ever needed anything after hours to just call… but...
May 21, 2020
HSHS St. Vincent Children’s Hospital works directly with HSHS St. Vincent Cancer Research Institute to enroll pediatric cancer patients in clinical trials that may not only...
May 21, 2020
Just like most men his age, 27-year-old Michael Moss leads a busy life. He is a college graduate, has a job, enjoys being outdoors, is a fan, has a passion for sports – especially soccer...
May 21, 2020
Marian Harder is no stranger to hospital stays. The Menominee, Mich. native was born in Marinette, but at 10 days old was taken to HSHS St. Vincent Hospital for a sweat chloride test – the...
May 21, 2020
The hallway that leads to the HSHS St. Vincent Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) may seem like any ordinary hallway, but for parents with children being cared...
May 21, 2020
Every parent has dreams for their child and is hopeful they can bring something forth to this world to make it a better place. When Shannon Kin gave birth to her daughter Hailee in 2008, she didn...
May 21, 2020
One thing that any expecting parent looks forward to is finding out the gender of their baby. When Liza DeCora was pregnant she went in for her routine anatomy ultrasound around 20-weeks in hopes...
May 21, 2020
With decorated walls, toys and activities designed especially for children, HSHS St. Vincent Children’s Hospital provides children, who are going through challenging experiences, a place to...
May 21, 2020
A director at a major insurance company, a triathlete, a lover of travel and the outdoors, Tavia Hopfensperger is a go-getter. She is passionate about taking charge of life and living it to the...
May 21, 2020
As a textile artist, 55-year-old Sandy Melroy needed some visual motivation to have a total knee replacement, despite living in pain from arthritis for 15 years. An admitted excuse-maker, Sandy had...
May 21, 2020
After a few months, Jo-Anne was undergoing a hysterectomy when the surgeon identified a tumor on Jo-Anne’s cervix. Biopsy results confirmed squamous cell cervical cancer.
May 21, 2020
John Cumicek works out nearly every day. He swims. He runs. He’s active and feels good at his age of 73 years. He’s also always been diligent about his health and attends all of his...
May 21, 2020
Relatively new to the Green Bay area, when 61 year old Chuck began having a stroke in December 2018, he was at the grocery store when the right side of his body stopped working. He had no idea that...
May 21, 2020
When Kira Bailey was four years old, her parents, Jill and David found her to be more tired than other kids her age. She had a hernia removed, but after that, things still didn’t seem right...
May 21, 2020
Like many sisters, Cassi and Steffi Kinnard share a close bond. However, their relationship is bonded beyond the experiences of sisterhood. Both young women suffer from heart valve disease &ndash...
May 21, 2020
Toddlers are used to getting bumps and bruises. But when almost 3-year-old Aiden was recovering from a fractured knee cap, his family was surprised that it didn’t heal as quickly as they...
May 21, 2020
As a high school freshman, Bryce is a teenager with a lot of hobbies. He’s a cross country runner - he hunts with his dad – he plays guitar, although he’ll tell you he’s not...
May 21, 2020
Almost any parent of a child with cancer can recall a moment they felt something “wasn’t quite right.” For Alyssa Rocque of Neenah, one of those moments occurred Memorial Day...
May 21, 2020
When Tom Schuller was four years old, he was diagnosed with polio. He remembers very little of his two weeks at HSHS St. Vincent Hospital during that time in the early 1950s, but he learned an...
May 21, 2020
At the end of January 2017, Tara Verhaagh and her husband, Nick, found out they were expecting their second child. The pair was ecstatic. But less than two weeks later, Tara started feeling...
May 21, 2020
In February 2016, Rodney Meidam knew something was wrong when he woke up in the middle of the night with a pain in his side. Despite his best efforts to try to go back to sleep, the pain didn&rsquo...
May 21, 2020
Stay-at-home mom, Mayme Daoust, was busy helping raise her two stepchildren as well as her two biological children. In October 2015, part of that busy routine included exclusively pumping her...
May 21, 2020
A cancer diagnosis is life-changing. When Jeff House, a husband and father of two girls, received his diagnosis at the age of 49, he realized he had not been making his health a large enough...
May 21, 2020
In the fall of 2012, Greg Stodola and his wife, Millaine, were newlyweds starting a new journey together. They were getting settled in their newly re-modeled home on the family farm where Greg...