Greater Nashua

HUDSON - Eight-year-old Georgia MacAloney of Hudson received a hero’s welcome from Walmart associates having been named this year’s Boston Children's Hospital champion. It is a well-deserved accolade considering everything she has endured in her young life -- starting just 24 hours after birth. Georgia’s mother, Justine MacAloney, said Georgia began showing symptoms of what appeared to be a bowel obstruction and was transferred from Lowell General Hospital to Tufts Medical Center. After three weeks at Tufts, Georgia was sent home only to be back in the hospital a few days later. Georgia was then taken to Children’s Hospital and within a day, she was diagnosed with a chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction. According to Children’s Hospital, the illness is defined as a “rare disorder in which intestinal nerve or muscle problems prevent food, fluid and air from ...