Bellevue girl with disease is named Kid Captain for football game

A Bellevue girl with a rare bone disease is named Kid Captain for the Iowa-Nebraska football game in November.Charlotte Keller had an inflammatory bone disease called CRMO and she regularly goes to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital to see a specialists. CRMO is not an infection, it’s the immune system that activates and thinks something is wrong and it causes painful inflammation.Charlotte will be an honorary Kid Captain for Iowa at the big game on Nov. 29th.Despite being from Nebraska she is a big Iowa fan.As part of this gig she got a behind the scenes tour of Kinnick Stadium and met some Hawkeye players. This is just a special a way to honor and celebrate pediatric patients.

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Source: Omaha.com

Image Credit: Robin Keller

A Bellevue girl with a rare bone disease is named Kid Captain for the Iowa-Nebraska football game

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