Sophia suffered from epilepsy that for years disrupted her life and put severe limitations on her future. But after receiving a groundbreaking procedure from the pediatric neurology team at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Sophia, now 18, is seizure free.

Mothers who had lost a child in death found comfort in speaking openly to one another of their beloved children, their grief and their possibility of hope at the 2022 Weavings weekend-long retreat.

Angela Wilson, RN, Missouri Baptist Medical Center dialysis unit, won two tickets in a BJC drawing to the St. Louis Blues’ last regular season home game and took as her guest her 19-year-old daughter, Ashlynn, who recently spent two and a half years battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia at Siteman Kids at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

Mitch Reynolds didn’t leave Barnes-Jewish Hospital alone on Feb. 8. He left with the two donor lungs that had been transplanted into his chest just 10 days earlier.

The transplant gave Reynolds a second chance at life and forged a physical and emotional bond that he intends to honor for the rest of his life.