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2012 Medical Miracles Gala

Thursday, May 3, 2012
6:30 p.m. Reception and Silent Auction
7:30 p.m. Dinner

Grand Hyatt San Antonio
600 East Market Street

She loves shoes and fashion …
but this year’s Medical Miracle Honoree is not your typical teenager

2012 Medical Miracle Honoree
Valeria Garcia

Valeria

“Mama, am I going to die?” That was the question 13-year-old Valeria Garcia asked her mother after her first CT Scan. She’d seen the look on the doctor’s face giving her family the results. Valeria knew it was really bad - she’d even seen it coming. Despite being active in sports, Valeria had been noticing her stomach getting larger. She had hoped the crunches she was doing would help but, on that day in February of 2009, when the pain became so intense and unbearable, she texted her mom to come get her. They went straight to the doctor, then almost immediately to the CAT scanner at a hospital near their Brownsville home. Her whole family was together when they heard the words that would change their life: malignant tumor.

Turns out it wasn’t malignant, but it was a five-pound tumor in her ovary. Within days she was at MD Anderson in Houston where surgeons removed it along with her left ovary and fallopian tube. They told her she didn’t need chemotherapy, so she went home to recover. “The worst was over,” her family thought. Turns out, “the worst” was just beginning.

For more information or to become a sponsor, please contact January Tejeda at 210-358-9934.

2012 Sponsors

We acknowledge our underwriting, table sponsors, and friends with grateful appreciation as of April 4, 2012.

Platinum Sponsor

wellmed

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Gold Sponsors

Broaddus

Cardon

Usaa

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Silver Sponsors

Cavaretta, Katona & Francis, PLLC esd and assocaites

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Bronze Sponsors

Communicare

Frost

Jacobs
Joint

Presidio

Strasburger

Valero

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Table Sponsors

AQTS Home Health
Bartlett Cocke General Contractors
Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, LLP
Chesney-Morales & Associates, Inc.
Chris & Scott Vasquez and Peggy & Darrell Deming
Coats Rose, PC
Creative Civilization

David Spencer
Davidson, Troilo, Ream & Garza

Donald & Yvonne Gonzales / Estrada Hinojosa
Home Intensive Care Pharmacy

ING
JQ
Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP

MedAssets
Nix Health
Overland Partners
Parsons
Siebert Brandford Shank
The Carvajal Team
The Parents of Abby Jack
UT Medicine San Antonio
UT School of Medicine - Deans Office
UTHSCSA-Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
UTHSCSA - Department of Surgery
UTHSCSA-Department of Radiology
UTHSCSA-Department of Urology

UTHSCSA-Division of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
University Transplant Center
Zachry Vaughn Layton

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Friends of the Foundation

Dr. John Parsi, DDS, MBA; Dr. Linda Parsi, MD, MBA
Remedios C. Agrawal, M.D.
Ralph A. DeFronzo, M.D.
Dini Partners
DOCUmation, Inc.
Josh & Faith King
Drs. Thomas Mayes & Minnette Son
McCombs Enterprises
Mary Ann Mote
Bart & Patsy Pelston
Mrs. Steven J. Pritchard
Garry & Erin Rogers
Theresa Scepanski
UTHSCSA-Rehabilitation Medicine

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