Patrick suffered a stroke during surgery to remove a tumor on his cerebellum. Here, he shares the story of his recovery at CHOP.

Addie's mom describes the joy and sadness of raising her 4-year-old daughter. Addie had a stroke as a baby and still has weakness on one side of her body.

After a diagnosis of GE reflux and failure to thrive, a mother tells how the Day Hospital at CHOP's Feeding and Swallowing Center helped her son Jack learn to eat.

When Phoenix was born profoundly deaf, his family turned to CHOP for help. At age 2 and 5 he received cochlear implants to help him hear. 

Bette Mickley didn't believe her daughter Amber had growing pains, for one simple reason: Amber wasn’t growing. Instead, the family learned Amber has Gaucher Disease, a rare genetic disorder.

The Feeding Program at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia taught Luke to eat after a diagnosis of failure to thrive.

Lynne and Bill Garbose provided the lead gift to create the Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit (SDU) at CHOP, a specially created birthing suite for mothers carrying babies with known birth defects.

When Diana Huang learned her nephew, Steven, was sick with Gaucher disease in his native China, she helped him come to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for treatment.

Born prematurely with an enlarged area on his upper intestine, Jack was diagnosed with multiple jejunal atresia. Though it occurs only 1 in 3,000 live births, the expert team at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia knew how to treat his rare condition.

Meet Emily Ireland. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 12 years old, Emily never lets her diabetes stop her from doing the things she enjoys.

Five months pregnant with twins, Kim Hebron and her husband Vaughn learned their babies had a life-threatening condition called twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS).

A mother tells the story of her daughter, Arianna, whose food anxiety and selectivity made mealtimes stressful and upsetting. The family turned to CHOP's Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Center for help.

Thirteen-year-old Hannah Rowan has type 1 diabetes, hyperthyroidism, and was recently diagnosed with celiac disease. But all of these auto-immune conditions don't slow her down.

Khloe was just 2 days old when doctors noticed she was having digestive problems. She was transferred to CHOP where doctors discovered she had Hirschsprung’s disease.

Katharina Lucas, Aaron's mother, describes how the Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Center at CHOP helped teach her young son to eat after a diagnosis of failure to thrive.

Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 8, Emily Gold has been working with her family and community to raise money to help find a cure for the condition.

Hundreds of gravely ill newborns have benefits from EMCO, a machine that temporarily acts as the baby's heart and lungs, since 1990 when Katelyn became CHOP's first ECMO patient.

A sensory processing disorder made eating a challenge for Toby. The Day Hospital Feeding Program at CHOP taught him how to like new foods.

Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes when he was 12, O'Dell Richardson has benefited from treatment and advice from the staff at CHOP's Diabetes Center for Children.

Lizanne Magarity Pando shares her daughter Jenna's story about living with Trisomy 21, also known as Down syndrome.