A cancer survivor. A heart attack victim. Pediatric patients. Be inspired by medical stories from ordinary people who’ve had extraordinary challenges. Hear about the health problems and transformations of our patients.
Carrie Rush was told her child would be born with a jaw abnormality that could obstruct breathing. UVA physicians had a plan. Then came a snowstorm.
For years, Charlottesville resident Charley Burton longed for a body that fit his gender identity. Here, he shares his story with us.
Charity Fowler had a rare type of stroke. She writes about her trauma, recovery, and the stroke symptoms we should all know about.
Jamie needed surgery to remove his melanoma and reconstruct his eyelid. Now he's doing his best to prevent skin cancer in his son.
Conor's condition put him at risk for brain damage. 4 years after his transplant, that risk is gone, and he's now a big brother.
An organ donor gave Patty Grimm her life back, but it wasn’t a heart, liver, kidney or lungs. Find out how a bone and tissue donation made all the difference in her quest to walk again.
Before her lung transplant, Tina Tinsley didn't realize how sick she was. She thought that was just life with cystic fibrosis (CF).
Louisa County resident Pat Gutekenst battled chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and had a lung transplant at UVA in 2015. He and his wife, Stacey Gutekenst, contributed this post.
When Veronica Downing found out she needed a kidney transplant, she and her husband became part of UVA's first paired exchange programs. Now she shares an update on how life has been.
Sharon Flynn has fainted in the past. But later, she would learn that her symptoms were a heart rhythm disorder called tachycardia.
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