While building a new wing of the St. Louis Children's Hospital in Missouri, Travis Barnes and Greg Combs noticed 2-year-old Vivian — who was receiving chemotherapy after being diagnosed this past Winter with acute lymphoblastic leukemia — waving down at them. "Every morning we woke up and waved to them. And we had to wave until somebody waved back," Ginger Keith, Vivian's mother, said of the ritual, which became a form of therapy for the young girl who spent most of her days in isolation. One day, when Vivian and her mom went to the window, instead of seeing the ironworkers waving, they were pointing to a steel beam. On it were the words "Get well soon."
