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Pediatric Patient Stories
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Grant Strothkamp
A couple of years ago,
Mark and Cheryl Strothkamp of Ozark thought their
rough-and-tumble son Grant, now 10, needed to learn the
importance of safety. They enrolled him in Safe Kids Boot Camp,
a full-day, week-long camp that teaches campers about safety
through interactive games, activities, videos and speakers. The
camp is put on every summer by Safe Kids Springfield, which has
offices in the Trauma Services department at St. John’s.
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Grant's Story
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Olivia Simon
Many adults are
squeamish at the thought of inserting contact lenses into their own
eyes. After surgery to remove congenital cataracts in both eyes,
Luke and Krystal Simon of Springfield had to learn how to insert
contacts into the eyes of their then-infant daughter, Olivia.
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Olivia's Story
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McKinley Scott
Like most little girls,
3-year-old McKinley Scott of Ozark has a teddy bear that she takes
everywhere. This teddy is a little different, however. It wears the
special molding helmet that McKinley wore as an infant after
undergoing surgery to correct a condition called craniosynostosis.
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McKinley's Story
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Adam
Noble
Adam Noble doesn’t have much time for diabetes. The lanky 14-year-old who wears
a size 15 shoe is a quarterback for Berryville High School, is on the basketball team and plays the trombone in the school
band, in addition to playing the electric guitar and the piano for
fun.
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Callie Lamb
Friday the 13th will always be a lucky day for 4-year-old Callie
Lamb of Ava.
On April 13, after a week of what her parents and pediatrician first
thought was the stomach flu, Callie saw St. John’s pediatric surgeon
Gregg Ford, M.D. An hour later, Dr. Ford performed an emergency
appendectomy.
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Eli Thurman
When
Eli Thurman of Conway, who was born deaf, underwent surgery at St.
John’s three years ago to receive a cochlear implant, his parents
hoped he might gain enough hearing from the device to protect
himself from danger.
Read Eli's Story
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Ross McMurdo
Shortly after 5-year-old Ross McMurdo of
Nixa was born with one kidney missing and the remaining kidney scarred,
his parents, Sheranne and Shannon, began making once- and sometimes
twice-monthly trips to St. Louis so Ross could see a pediatric
nephrologist (kidney specialist) there.
Read Ross's Story
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The Skopecs
One might think that the home of a family
with five children under the age of 11 would be absolute pandemonium, but
the Skopec home in Bolivar is anything but. The house couldn’t be more
tidy and 10-year-old Caleb and 8-year-old quadruplets Ryan, Kyle, Seth and
Kathryn couldn’t be more polite and respectful.
However, “calm” didn’t
exactly describe Steve and Sara after their first doctor’s appointment for
what they thought was going to be their second child in 1996.
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