Stanford Medicine Children’s Health performs first-in-world simultaneous lung transplant and chest wall expansion surgery on a young child Meet 6-year-old Violet from Shasta Lake, California. She’s feisty and brave. She rolls with the punches. She has her own pace to life. And her middle name is Hope. “We chose Hope because life can be so hard without hope,” says Tawna, Violet’s mom. “We didn’t know how much we would need hope in the years ahead.” When Violet was born, everyth...