St. Jude patient Jasmine
Jasmine's story
At 14, Jasmine had been playing on a community league softball team for years when her left knee started to bother her.
It was 2024, and she was a shortstop and utility player, able to fill in at any position on the team. Add to that, Jasmine liked to slide into the bases. So, for about a year, her family assumed her painful knee was likely an unresolved softball injury.
In April of 2024, Jasmine went in for a surgery to clean out what doctors thought might be an infection, and a biopsy. Jasmine had osteosarcoma, the most common form of bone cancer in children and teenagers.
She was referred to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where she underwent nine months of treatment that included chemotherapy and limb-sparing surgery.
St. Jude patient Jasmine with her mom, Ashley
St. Jude patient Jasmine with her mom
St. Jude is an amazing place. Your caregivers, your team — everybody here, they just become family throughout the journey.
- St. Jude patient Jasmine
Both Jasmine and her mom, Ashley, felt that the care at every level, is extraordinary.
It’s a whole different world and a whole different concept of care that you get.
- Ashley, Jasmine's mom
St. Jude patient Jasmine with her mom
Where is Jasmine now?
Jasmine is back home in Tennessee. And as her recovery has progressed, she has been able to return to the softball field.
St. Jude patient Jasmine
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