Honored Kid

Mary Stegmueller

Mary Stegmueller Kid Photo

Location

Northglenn, CO, US

Diagnosis

Brain or spinal cord tumor

Date of Diagnosis

October 2020

Status

Angel

Treated At

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Children's Hospital Colorado

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My Story

Mary waged a 41 month battle with DIPG. She never backed down. Mary loved kittens and making crafts. She often sent small gifts and handmade crafts to people she loved dearly in the DIPG world and in her community. She loved her brother, mother and father dearly. They made Mary's fight the center of their home for nearly four years to give her the most normal upbringing possible under the circumstances. Mary was a girl scout, selling Girl Scout cookies even in her last month of life with hopes of going to summer camp one more time. She wanted to be a veterinarian and she would have been an excellent one. Mary cared deeply about providing comfort and understood medicine well, having spent half her life in doctor appointments, MRIs and the hospital. Mary was fiercely independent she would drive her pink ability wheels everywhere and get off and crawl as needed to see what she might have missed otherwise. She was mischievous, often hiding under the hospital bed at Stanford to avoid another neuro-eye exam. Mary was smart with a wonderful memory and love of life. Mary never quit her battle against DIPG, her body quit her. Mary carried her faith deeply and participated in her parish with prayer and anointing. She runs free and fully healed in Heaven where dragonflies soar, and she is reunited with her sisters and brothers of DIPG and two siblings who passed before birth. God is with her, she will not fail. Psalm 43:5.

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