One-year-old Wynn Eady toddles toward the crowd during the ceremony to introduce Erlanger Health System’s nine Miracle Kids in the Baroness Campus Medical Mall in Chattanooga on Tuesday afternoon.
2012 T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital at Erlanger Miracle Kids
• Ashley Snider, 4, visual impairment, speech and motor delay, Chattanooga• Garrett Saylors, 10, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, Cohutta, Ga.• Greer Cofield, 5, kicked in face by horse, Cartersville, Ga.• Hilario Sanchez, 8 months, pertussis, Dalton, Ga.• Kyra McGowan, 2, prematurity at 27 weeks gestation — 1 pound, 9 ounces at birth, Signal Mountain.• Mackenzie Snyder, 10 months, respiratory depression, Chattanooga• Rachel Price, 17, anaplastic large cell lymphoma, Sale Creek• Sara Carr, 18, diffuse large cell lymphoma, Chattanooga• Wynn Eady, 1, umbilical cord around neck at delivery/renal hepatic failure, Chattanooga
A year ago, Wynn Eady was in T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital at Erlanger for kidney failure treatment.
Tuesday, Wynn,1, was back at the hospital, as one of nine patients chosen as 2012 Miracle Kids.
Chosen by hospital staff, the Miracle Kids become ambassadors and fundraisers for Children’s Hospital throughout the year, according to Ali Cobb, director of fundraising.
The Miracle Kids are invited to all Children’s Hospital events to share their stories and show donors and the community how contributions are used, Cobb said.