Patient Stories

We are delighted to present a portion of Matthew's Scholarship Application (reprinted with permission). Matthew is a former BMTU patient who attends Texas A&M University and is majoring in Mechanical Engineering. His Grace Foundation is honored to have served [...]

Zach received a bone marrow transplant at age 3 for Wiscott-Aldrich Syndrome. And then, over a decade later, Zach devoted 3-4 hours a week over the summer to assisting His Grace Foundation with a number of volunteer activities like [...]

When the results from Jazzalyn's prenatal screening came in, her family immediately knew something was wrong. Several days and tests later, they learned that Jazzalyn had Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID). Within Jazzalyn's first week of life, she was admitted [...]

As a senior in high school, musician, and college hopeful, Jailyne received the news no one wants to hear — she had Stage Four Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. After several rounds of chemotherapy, Jailyne's oncologist recommended a bone marrow transplant. Jailyne persisted [...]

When he was two years old, superhero-loving Rami faced his greatest foe: Acute Lympoblastic Leukemia. Rami decided that chemotherapy was his superpower, and he fought valiantly with his allies of family and friends alongside him. When Rami was four, [...]

Watch Jon share the story of his family's experience with their son Hendrix, the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, and His Grace Foundation. here

After 8 months of tests, life-threatening sickness and searching for answers, a 10- month-old named Kate was diagnosed with Congential Amegakaryocytic Thrombctopenia (CAMT), an extremely rare form of bone marrow failure. During Kate’s treatment and transplant, her mother, Lindsay, [...]

The body fascinates Briana. As a junior Applied Movement Science major at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), Briana took classes like “Theory of Human Performance” and “Applied Biomechanics of Human Movement.” She conditioned her body through weightlifting [...]

When Colten Collier was just nine months old, a doctor discovered that his platelet count was abnormally low. It would take over three years to uncover the reason why. In all the world, just 100 or so other people [...]

“Our story started at seven days old with long nights and days,” said Patsy Garza. Those seven first days of life belong to her niece, Jazzalyn, who was born with a disorder called Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID). Seven remains an [...]