>>Susan Taylor: Hi I’m Susan Taylor.
At Scripps, we treat more than 500,000 patients a year and we have a story for each and every
one of them.
For us, it's all about excellence, compassion and innovation.
And because Scripps is a not-for-profit health care system, all the money we raise stays
local.
Your donations go back into the system to improve the lives of our patients.
We help people like Tony Fernandez.
Paralyzed from the waist down because of a rare cancer that attacked his spine, he was
bedridden for months.
Now look at him.
Thanks to philanthropic dollars, these robotic legs helped put Tony back on his feet.
>>Cindy Fernandez, wife: To me he’s come a long way in such a short time.
He’s a walking miracle and this is what we want for everybody else.
>>Susan Taylor: Tony?
He’s happily back at work.
>>Tony Fernandez: You make these little goals.
That’s the whole thing.
Make the goals and Scripps will help you through that.
It’s like they’re holding your hand too.
>>Tyeisha Smith: C’mon y’all.
Push, push forward.
>>Susan Taylor: We help people like Tyeisha.
The mother of five slept all day long because of her out-of-control diabetes.
She was in pain and severely depressed.
And when she went to kiss her kids goodnight?
>>Tyeisha Smith: I literally felt like I was dying and that was the last moment I was going
to have.
>>Susan Taylor: The Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute gave Tyeisha the tools she needed
to treat her diabetes.
>>Dr. George Dailey: When you go out to dinner, this
will give you instant feedback.
>>Susan Taylor: And she's enrolled in a clinical trial, testing out a new device to help control
her blood sugar levels.
>>Tyeisha Smith: Now I can be that mother to my children.
I have so much energy.
I have so much life.
And to just be sitting here knowing that I’m about to embark on something new that can
help me even more.
I’m at a loss for words.
They saved my life!
>>Tyeisha Smith & Children: Thank you, Scripps!
>>Gay Grossman, mother: She’s awesome.
>>Susan Taylor: For 15 years, no one could figure out what was wrong with Lilly Grossman.
>>Steve Grossman, father: She was having muscle cramps in her whole body for three, four,
five minutes at a time.
>>Gay Grossman, mother: When things were real bad, it would be every five minutes that she
would have these seizure like tremors all night long, screaming, aware, in pain.
>>Susan Taylor: Lilly came to Scripps to take part in a landmark research study which looks
at rare, serious health conditions that defy diagnosis.
She had her genome sequenced.
Turns out, she has two genetic mutations, one on the ADCY5 gene, the other on the Dock
3 gene.
Lilly was given a series of medications, is finally sleeping through the night and, for
first time in her life, is able to plan ahead.
>>Gay Grossman: Lilly being able to take part in that study was, that was lifesaving for
all of us.
>>Susan Taylor: And now?
Lilly attends college in L.A. where she’s studying to be a writer.
So, is it great to be in college?
>>Lilly Grossman, grateful patient: Yeah!
>>Susan Taylor: Your donations also help fund things not covered by insurance: clinical
trials, genetics counselors, nurses who help cancer patients navigate their way through
the system, stress reduction classes, support groups and healing gardens.
Because at Scripps, we know we need to heal the mind and the spirit as well as the body.
>>Susan Taylor: If you've been touched by someone at Scripps, a doctor, a nurse, maybe
it was the person who changed your sheets.
>> Babajan Mirzai, Parking Supervisor: Thank you for thanking me!
You’re the best on the west and north and the south and the east!
>>Susan Taylor: Or maybe it's the person who said 'goodbye' as you left to go home.
We hope you'll please consider making a donation to Scripps, whether it's $25, $50, $100, $1000—whatever
you feel comfortable with— every dollar is critically important.
Because through philanthropy, we help to heal, enhance and save lives.
Thank you.