“I make sure my patients are served breakfast, lunch, and dinner. When they get their trays, I love to see that smile so that’s what I’m there for,” Sandra told the show’s producers for a taped segment that aired during the episode.

Sandra is the lead ambassador in Food and Nutrition Services and logs 30,000 steps a day delivering meals throughout the medical center.

Live on the show, Tamron asked Sandra why she does what she does, especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s just natural. I just love to do it. And joy is always in my heart, so I just love it,” Sandra said with a big smile.

Corey was also featured in a segment on the show. He said he finds joy in uplifting Cook Children’s patients and families and shared the story of a little boy who was unable to walk.

“I walked past him one time, and said ‘Hey buddy, how are you doing?’ and he smiled with a big smile and he showed me his muscles, and I said ‘I’m going to show you my muscles,’ and I showed him my muscles and said ‘You stay strong and you keep on getting strong,” Corey explained. “This kid wound up walking three months later in this hospital. That’s what drives me to keep on coming to work.”

All four Cook Children’s employees were part of the virtual audience received gifts from the show as appreciation for their commitment to serving throughout the pandemic.

He was just days away from his second birthday in August 2016 when his mom, Arielle, noticed something was wrong with his arm.

"I thought it was broken. We took him to the emergency room and I thought he was just going to need a cast and we would go home," said Arielle.

Instead, Arielle and her husband learned that Adam had neuroblastoma. The cancer was eating up the bone in his arm and had spread throughout his little body.

"The whole scan looked like someone took a highlighter to it, that's how much cancer there was," she said.

In the months that followed, Adam went through seven rounds of chemotherapy, 12 rounds of radiation, two bone marrow transplants and a surgery to remove a tumor that had developed near his left kidney.

Today, Adam has no evidence of cancer in his body. He's in his last phase of treatment and if all goes well, he could officially be deemed cancer-free by February.

"It's scary because he carries a gene that makes it possible for the cancer to come back anytime, but we try not to think about that," said Arielle.

Helping to ease that worry is a new member of the family. Arielle gave birth to a little girl earlier this month, making Adam a big brother for the first time.

"Her name is Maddison Paige," said Arielle. "She has made everything better and we are so happy she is finally here."

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