Children's Miracle Network of Greater St. Louis

Greta Thompson

Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center

On the day after Halloween of 2006, Greta’s mom Linda picked her up from school. When Greta got into the car, she began to cry. She had a pain in her right leg that had returned. This pain had occurred twice before for Greta. Once in August of 2006 after horseback riding in the mountains of Colorado, Greta had complained about a pain. Again, in September 2006 the pain appeared after Greta was jumping on a neighbor’s trampoline all afternoon. Each time the pain was located in and around her right femur.

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John Kaeser

St. Louis Children’s Hospital

April & David Kaeser say that although they didn’t have to travel the world to get to St. Louis Children’s Hospital . . . St. Louis Children’s Hospital means the world to them. It’s been a long journey for the Kaeser family that started in 1998. In the seventh month of April Kaeser’s pregnancy, pediatric cardiologists discovered that her baby boy John appeared to have Tricuspid Atresia, an Arterial Septal Defect and Transposition of the Great Arteries.

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