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November 24, 2025

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Gianna, and one of her Nurses Holly, smile with Nike shoes signed by the Iowa Football team

How One Girl’s Mantra Inspired an Entire Care Team

Believe — seven-letter word that means far more than its dictionary definition for the Wackers, a family of six from Eureka, Missouri. In the four and half years since their eldest daughter Gianna was diagnosed with Sanfilippo syndrome, a terminal illness, “Believe” has become their family mantra — a testament of hope and joy that has spread beyond their home in Missouri and into the University of Iowa Clinical Research Unit…

 

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