Two ways you can help during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
This month is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Thanks to donors like you, we have more treatments available for kids and can cure more than 90 percent…
Category: Patient Stories
You Helped Isabel Find Her Voice
“Go Robert!” shouted 12-year-old Isabel Miranda as her older brother sprinted across the finish line. That morning at Summer Scamper, Robert outran 2,019 other racers…
9-year-old Joshua can hear again
After six years of being deprived of his hearing, we're so thrilled to report that 9-year-old Joshua of Morgan Hill has his hearing back! Many patients can…
Peeking inside the expanding Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Ever since I started my job in 2008, I’ve been hearing about the huge expansion of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford that is slated to open in 2017. First…
Shoreline Bill’s Golf Marathon raises $7K for the Heart Center
Bill Mykytka and his wife, Megan, were home watching TV one night, when they saw a story on Dateline NBC featuring the Bingham family from…
Ambassador’s Membership Form
Opening the Doors to a Brighter Future
You made cancer a distant memory for Lydia. On a sunny morning in June 1991, 6-year-old Lydia Lee rode in an ambulance to the brand…
One of My Proudest Moments
Packard Children’s was initially just a place where our family’s healthy babies were born. That all changed for us 15 years ago when one of…
Kindergarten, Here We Come
Your hospital saved our baby at 13 months of age, successfully removing a tumor which ran bowel to heart. We had kindergarten orientation last night!…
Doris is Breathing Easier Thanks to You
Doris “Lipstick Girl” Diaz never left the house without a shiny coat of pink lip gloss. More than keeping up appearances, it was her way…