TORRINGTON – Lookup the definition of persistence and commitment in the dictionary and you’ll see a picture of Southeast High School junior Logan Grosz.
Just before Thanksgiving, Grosz made a goal to collect $10,000 for Children’s Hospital Colorado, a facility with which he is all too familiar. As a newborn, he spent his first month in the neonatal intensive care unit at CHC and just before his second birthday he visited the hospital again after he suffered a stroke that left him unable to talk.

Five years later the he was back at CHC, where he was diagnosed with idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura, a serious autoimmune disease and, when he was 14 years old, Grosz was life-flighted back to the hospital and learned he had Evans Syndrome, a second autoimmune disease that required him to undergo a complete blood transfusion.
“When I was there, there wasn’t much to do except sit around and watch the same videos over and over,” Grosz said. “I was there eight days. It was pretty boring. So, I decided to do something about it.”
The something he set his sights on was to raise $10,000 to buy DVDs and video games for the hospital and break the cycle of boredom.
Some 50 Wyoming children are admitted to CHC every year. In 2015, kids from the Cowboy State scheduled about 8,000 outpatient visits, while 80 Wyoming newborns were treated in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.