Patient Stories

Stories of Strength

Real people sharing their journeys with ARDS—the challenges, the victories, and the hope that carries them forward.

Stories of Hope

Real people, real journeys. Every story reminds us that there is hope, community, and strength in facing ECMO treatment together.

My battle with ARDS took place when I was pregnant in 2016. In March, I was about 28 weeks along and came down with what I thought was a cold […]

It was in the spring of 2015 that the doctors determined I needed a partial knee replacement after a couple failed knee scopes. On May 26th, 2015 I went to […]

My story begins late December after Christmas with my family in Colorado. I had flown back to California, my state of residence for the past 10 years. I was back […]

Around the middle of 2011 I started having issues with vertigo. Local ENT doctors did many exams and sent me to the hearing center at Vanderbilt. I was diagnosed with […]

A busy mother of five children, Sarah didn’t have time to get sick. So when she developed a cough over Labor Day weekend in 2009, she barely gave it a […]

On August 7, 2009 I was very sick with fever, body aches, cough and sore throat. I went to the Dr. and he tested me for the flu, but the […]

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