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Updated: Mar. 27, 2023 at 10:19 AM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
The hospital is turning 15 years old this weekend.
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Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 5:31 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Please welcome Elly Perlman as the newest one of our amazing #MollysKids. This now 8-year-old from Marvin in Union County, will steal your heart.
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Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 9:20 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Destinee lives in Hickory and is a 17-year-old senior at St. Stephens High School.
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Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 9:47 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
This Charlotte boy was born in Miami and moved to North Carolina when he was 3-months old. He is non-verbal, has developmental delays, and lives with seizures.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2023 at 3:37 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Project Change will hold a Fun Run 5k on Saturday, April 22.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 10:18 PM EST
|By Molly Grantham
Asthma isn’t a pediatric diagnosis that’s usually deadly, and Lexie McCallum’s mom wants people to know it can be.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2023 at 6:35 PM EST
|By Molly Grantham
Savannah Shipman was diagnosed with a CHD within weeks of her birth.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 10:54 AM EST
|By Molly Grantham
The fun run will be celebration around Sunnie’s fight, rather than sadness that she’s fighting at all.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2023 at 8:23 PM EST
|By Molly Grantham
Before she passed, Allyson made a decision to become an organ donor at age 17.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 10:24 AM EST
|By Molly Grantham
When Abigail was diagnosed with ADOA, she was the seventh in the world to get this news.
7-Day Forecast
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 9:40 PM EST
|By Molly Grantham
Wynter has an autoimmune disorder called Henoch Schonlein Purpura (HSP).
Updated: Jan. 13, 2023 at 4:36 PM EST
|By Molly Grantham
The Clover High School student was only 17 years old.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2022 at 3:53 PM EST
|By Molly Grantham
Still no hot water (Day Three), but heat is working and we’re feeling like campers on in our own home on this break. It’s kinda fun. Enjoying this time and logging on now specifically to relay one story that needs sharing.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2022 at 10:21 PM EST
|By WBTV Web Staff
Several Molly's Kids had a big week this week, with lots of good to go around.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2022 at 3:44 PM EST
|By Molly Grantham
Hartley Plyer, a longtime member of Molly’s Kids, organized the book drive.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2022 at 1:50 PM EST
|By Molly Grantham
She said books are hugely appreciated when you’re a pediatric patient.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 9:54 PM EST
|By Molly Grantham
Owen was diagnosed with Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor (ATRT) on the first day of 2022.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 11:19 AM EST
|By Molly Grantham
Baby Jaxxon just underwent surgery at only three weeks old.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2022 at 3:13 PM EST
|By Molly Grantham
Zeke had surgery late last week for something called Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 10:15 PM EST
What happened in the front of the parking lot at WBTV News Tuesday afternoon has this crowd of strangers smiling.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 at 10:33 PM EST
|By Molly Grantham
The Hearts and Hope Foundation, Inc. is organizing a first-time pajama drive, to help parents who are stuck in the hospital this holiday season with their sick children.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 at 5:06 PM EST
|By Molly Grantham
Hartley Plyler is a longtime one of our #MollysKids who is no longer a kid herself. She has graduated from ClemsonLIFE and though still in treatments, doing great.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 12:58 PM EST
|By Molly Grantham
In her first four months of life, the little girl saw multiple doctors and specialists and was hospitalized three different times.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 10:36 PM EST
|By Molly Grantham
Update on this vibrant 10-year-old in Monroe—she might be battling a nasty brain tumor, but this past weekend, appeared on the Carolina Panthers field at halftime as a part of the Junior TopCats.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 10:51 AM EST
|By Molly Grantham
“The everyday highs and lows are my long-standing new normal.”
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 10:38 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Sunnie’s mom reached out the day after her diagnosis, full of hope.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 11:37 AM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
In March we met Amelia Culp, from Albemarle, who lives with SMA Type 1. Stands for Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2022 at 7:10 AM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
At 12 years old, Adeena was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer of soft tissue or bone, in May 2020.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2022 at 5:18 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Despite that original prognosis, Savanna came out ahead.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2022 at 9:39 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Burrell has been battling an aggressive subtype of neck and head cancer since October 2020.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2022 at 10:12 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
She was just eight months old.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 7:09 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Kiefer Katsoulis was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in 2015.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 4:11 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
At 28 weeks pregnant, she was diagnosed with ‘Tetrology of Fallot with Pulmonary Atresia.’
Updated: Aug. 12, 2022 at 9:59 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Glanzmann Thrombasthenia is a rare disorder that causes Cheyenne’s body to bleed constantly.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 3:29 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Hannah Guardado is back with great news.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 at 9:45 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
After being born prematurely, Araina was diagnosed with Quadripareses Cerebral Palsy, along with other things.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 10:04 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
The House is “Mitchell’s House.” It’s in existence because of a boy named Mitchell Bays Turner, and his powerhouse of a mom, Meg McElwain.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 10:05 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
WylieRae was diagnosed with a brain tumor at six months old.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 7:06 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Doctors recently discovered a clot in Steele’s heart.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 7:05 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Back in March we met Judd Gray. He was born with a heart syndrome.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 12:44 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
It’s a quick update, but a lovely one. The good, the bad, and always real.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2022 at 8:50 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
The 17-year-old from Conover has just over 900 days of maintenance treatment ahead.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2022 at 10:15 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
He was given the “Yes” award by a local organization.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 4:22 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
YES! A happy update on the unique story about Silas Patterson, the Mooresville boy who is the only child in the world living with a specific type of his rare genetic condition.
Updated: Jul. 26, 2022 at 10:26 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Christine Patterson said she worked on sending the letter below for six months. So much happened in the course of that time, her words had to keep getting updated.
Updated: Jul. 26, 2022 at 9:44 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Surprise mail.If you’ve been following here awhile you might remember Margaret Hayes. She lived in the Charlotte-area. Like many of you, she followed #MollysKids.
Updated: Jul. 25, 2022 at 10:07 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Meet 16-month-old Malley Jane. This Ashe County girl was born healthy and neuro-typical, despite being exposed to COVID at 5 months in utero.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2022 at 3:53 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Welcome to the newest member of #MollysKids.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2022 at 6:36 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
People from around Ashe County posted birthday messages for Aaron.
Updated: Jul. 4, 2022 at 3:59 PM EDT
|By Molly Grantham
Aaron was diagnosed with osteosarcoma.