Patients with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) have a higher risk of breaking and fracturing bones, and two and a half-year-old Ellie Butts is no stranger to that.
ABC 6 News has followed Ellie from her infancy, as she’s learned to adapt to living life with her diagnosis of OI, commonly known as “Brittle Bone” disease. However, Ellie recently received a surgery that could change the rest of her life.
About 3 months ago, Ellie was sitting in the pediatric surgery ward at Mayo Clinic Hospital-Saint Marys campus. She’d been there many times prior, but never for a surgery as major as this one.
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