Even Ruth was surprised to enter the world when she did, so she went straight to the NICU. She spent the next 31 days gaining her strength and learning to...
Mathew James Thatcher was born 2:46 am, weighing 4 pounds, 9 ounces, and Keegan Allan Thatcher was born at 3:10 am weighing 4 pounds 8 ounces. They, along with their...
Our NICU journey was very unexpected to say the least. I was diagnosed with COVID-19 in November of 2020. I had horrible symptoms, which ultimately affected my pregnancy.
Bentley was born at 27 1/2 weeks gestation, but was 4 weeks IUGR (intrauterine growth restricted). She weighed only 1 pound, 1 ounce when she was born. She spent 108...
Avery was born with an infection at 24 weeks gestation in 2019. He actually ended up with four different infections, hernias, and chronic lung disease. In the end we had...
Edith Molstad, a young girl from Sweden, was diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy. Diet and medications weren't enough to treat her seizures until she flew to the Utah...
Karen Watson struggled with essential tremor for years. But her tremor grew significantly worse after she underwent chemotherapy for her breast cancer. Desperate to find an effective long-term solution, she...
Kristen Knight was watching television when she tried to pick up the remote control on the side of her bed. Her left arm wouldn't move no matter how hard she...
Doni Jones, an English teacher, first noticed a slight tremor in her hands while grading papers or writing on the board in her classroom. Years later, her tremor worsened and...
Steve Tait had five grown children from a previous marriage. However, when he remarried, he and his wife began discussing the possibility of having a child together. There was just...
Competitive speed skater, Blair Cruikshank, experienced persistent, worsening hip pain that began to interfere with her athletic training. The Hip Preservation Program at University of Utah Health was able to...
In her big, blended family of nine, Maylee Lemon is an optimist who loves to keep everyone laughing. When she and her husband got married, he had four children, she...
As a same-sex couple, Nicholas and his husband Michael always knew there would be hurdles to starting their own family. They considered adoption or becoming foster parents, but neither seemed...
When she was growing up on a small Idaho farm, Diana McGuire always dreamed of breaking away to attend college. She excelled academically — graduating as valedictorian of her high...
After meeting in high school and marrying a few years later, Aimee and Clark Kleinman were ready to start their family. Conceiving their first child was a little more challenging...
Avid skier, Keane Horner, was hitting the slopes in Wyoming when he hit a bump that shot excruciating pain up his leg to his back. A few days later, he...
Seventeen-year-old Cannon Cooper fell nearly 60 feet into a cave while on a youth outing. He suffered a severe traumatic brain injury from the accident. His recovery looked grim until...
Mark Kroeze suddenly started experiencing strange stroke-like symptoms. He went to a rural Utah hospital where providers consulted with a stroke neurologist via U of U Health's Telestroke Program.
It's happening in the bedrooms of millions of men in the U.S., but it's not something they really want to talk about. The inability to get or maintain an erection...
Jenny Rhoads Larkin was hit by a car during one of her daily runs. She suffered many injuries, including a severe traumatic brain injury. At U of U Health, a...
Amanda Rush woke up one morning with an annoying twitch in one eye. Except this twitch didn't seem to go away. As time went on, the twitch turned into one...
