Patient Stories
- Patient Story
Mothers who had lost a child in death found comfort in speaking openly to one another of their beloved children, their grief and their possibility of hope at the 2022 Weavings weekend-long retreat.
- Patient Story
The handmade sign said, “Colton, I beat cancer” with a photo of St. Louis Blues player Colton Parayko and Ashlynn Wilson, a teenager who recently became cancer free, ice skating together at Enterprise Center.
- Patient Story
Mitch Reynolds didn’t leave Barnes-Jewish Hospital alone on Feb. 8.
- Patient Story
Matt Neil, radiotherapy service engineer on the BJC clinical asset management team.
- Patient Story
At first glance, Burnest Orr’s chances didn’t look good. He had contracted COVID-19 at his assisted living facility in early April.
- Patient Story
Some sisters imagine what it might be like to have and raise their kids close together. Few, however, get to experience giving birth to their babies on the exact same day, at the same hospital, delivered by the same doctor. It sounds like a fictionalized movie storyline. But for two St. Louis sisters, this was their reality.
- Patient Story
When Ned Anderson talks to people about becoming organ donors, he knows exactly what he’s asking of them. He’s lived it.
- Patient Story
“It takes a village to raise old people, too,” says 81-year-old Valura Massey as she sits in her primary care physician’s office in west St. Louis County, her cane close at hand. She’s been dealing with diabetes for many years and recently switched to a new physician, Nathan Moore, MD.
- Patient Story
John Sanders went to orientation for his new job and was excited to get started.