“In the middle of the night, Mika started complaining of chest pains and was breathing funny,” her mother Allison recalls.

Mika’s pediatrician instructed them to go to the Emergency Department in the morning for a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia.

“But when we got there, so many doctors and nurses came rushing into the room, and we knew something was not right,” says Allison.

To read the rest of Mika’s amazing story visit: https://www.hawaiipacifichealth.org/kapiolani/patient-visitors/wall-of-hope/

Published by Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children