Gianna and Nurse Holly poses with signed shoes

Believe: How one girl’s mantra inspired an entire care team

Monday, October 20, 2025
Believe-- a 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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