Gifts of life

 December, 2017, Hannah Hepner performed with a special needs cheerleading team at the state high school cheerleading championship. Everything was fine — until it wasn’t. “When we got Hannah home, her legs were super swollen,” says her mother Michelle. “Her ankles were super swollen. However, we never had any idea . . . We’d just been to the doctor a week before and she was doing fine.” It was a Friday night, when sirens blare through emptied streets and physicians’ offices are shuttered. Michelle and her husband Michael phoned the doctor, who advised them to put Hannah’s legs up and watch her. Not long after arriving at the office the next morning, they were sent to Sky Ridge Medical Center. “Hannah was in the intensive […]