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A special graduation: Mayo Clinic care team organizes graduation walk for patient
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Knowing Mayo Clinic patient Brady Larson would miss his college graduation, his Mayo Clinic care team quickly stepped in to create his own special graduation.
Brady, 20, was supposed to walk across the stage and receive his diploma at Mitchell Institute of Technology in Mitchell, South Dakota, on Friday, May 9. Instead, he was more than 300 miles away at Mayo Clinic preparing for his upcoming bone marrow transplant.
Watch: Graduation walk for Mayo Clinic patient, Brady Larson
Determined to ensure Brady was able to celebrate the big day, his care team organized a graduation walk-through ceremony for Brady in the hospital hallway. Doctors, nurses and others cheered him on as he walked to the song "Pomp and Circumstance," clutching a graduation cap decoration and sporting a white lab coat. A celebration followed with lime green cupcakes – his school color.
Brady has severe aplastic anemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. He didn’t have to look far for a donor. His 15-year-old sister, Brooklyn, donated to help her big brother.
Brady graduated with a degree in agricultural business and plans to continue the family's legacy of farming in Letcher, South Dakota. Learn more about becoming a bone marrow donor.
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