Category: Summer Scamper Heroes

Preschooler, chatterbox, fetal surgery champion  By Lynn Nichols Just 22 weeks into her pregnancy, Helisabed found out that her developing baby had the most serious…

During a run for her fourth-grade PE class, Athena started to feel pain in her chest. Her heart was racing, and she struggled to breathe….

You’ll likely recognize Anson as the oh-so-smiley face of 2022 Summer Scamper. “Anson is super happy and friendly and curious,” says Anson’s mom, Shirley.  “He…

You can often find 16-year-old Dean enjoying the outdoors doing his favorite hobby: fishing. “I usually go fishing with my dad and my brother,” says…

Breezy, one of our very first Summer Scamper Patient Heroes, is training hard for an Ironman Triathlon. In 2011, Breezy was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a…

In August 2020, Caroline told her parents her arm hurt. Eventually she stopped using it. “When we took her to urgent care, then an orthopedic…

  “Being in the hospital isn’t scary to me. Having a new problem isn’t scary to me anymore because it’s happened so many times. I…

Kristin Stecher and Rushabh Doshi can walk to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford from their home. “Rushabh went to graduate school at Stanford. We ran…

“I was diagnosed with my first cancer when I was 8 years old,” Denielle smiles confidently, fiddling with her beloved ukulele. “It was stage 4…