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Momo Makaila Keely

Shriners Children’s Florida Shriners Children’s Greenville Shriners Children’s Hawaii

Momo, 15, is a straight-A student Makaila, 15, a high school junior in Keely, 14, is high school freshman
from Kissimmee, Florida, where Johnson City, Tennessee, has been living in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is
she attends a specialized arts school dancing since she was 3, and now a straight-A student who enjoys
and majors in creative writing. In her she enjoys teaching dance, as competitive swimming, modern
younger years, she enjoyed softball, well. She was recently featured in dance, hula, baking and art. She
soccer and gymnastics. Now she a Shriners Children’s commercial also enjoys tennis and golf when
focuses on competitive swimming performing ballet. When she’s not in she visits her birth island of Kauai.
and playing the violin in her high the dance studio, you can find her A selfless young teen, Keely loves
school orchestra. reading a good book, watching a helping others and making them feel
movie or eating her favorite foods, beautiful.
Momo, who was adopted from pasta and seafood.
China, was born with scoliosis and
a congenital amputation of her right Makaila was diagnosed with scoliosis Keely first received care at Shriners
arm. Momo began receiving care at when she was 11 and her mom Children’s Hawaii in 2019 after
Shriners Children’s Florida when she noticed a curvature in her spine. suffering wrist and foot injuries while
was 4. Since then, she has received Throughout her four-year journey playing at school. She receives
routine x-rays to monitor the curve at Shriners Children’s Greenville, physical therapy and custom orthotics
in her spine to be sure it is staying Makaila has been treated with bracing to treat her navicular bone fracture
within a safe range. Momo has also and a spinal fusion. Makaila wore a and idiopathic toe walking, a condition
been receiving care through team three 3 different braces for 16 hours that affects her gait and the range of
at Pediatric Orthotic and Prosthetic a day, but as she grew, her curvature motion in her foot. A true competitor,
Services (POPS) – Southeast, LLC, worsened and it became apparent Keely may ultimately require foot
who has worked with her to design that she would need surgery. Makaila surgery to help speed up resumption
custom limbs and adjust or replace eventually had spinal fusion surgery of her athletic interests.
her prostheses as she grows or performed by Shriners orthopedic
develops new interests. surgeon Franklin Gettys, M.D.

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