A year ago, Lauren’s life was derailed. At 19, she was just starting her sophomore year at college when she started feeling very sick. Before long, the doctors had a diagnosis: high risk, acute leukemia. Life as Lauren knew it was over. She was transported into a medical world she found overwhelming. To date, she…
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Remember Kayla? She is the 11-year-old battling a brain tumor. We call her the “Bling Girl” because she’s the one who had wanted fancy bling tack for her horse! Thankfully, Team Summer was able to get it for her! What you might not know is that whenever a kid receives a Team Summer gift, the…
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This guy should look familiar to you. He’s been involved with Team Summer from the beginning. In June of 2011, a few months before Team Summer founder, Summer Dale, was diagnosed with a rare sarcoma, Tyler was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma in his rib cage. Summer and Tyler met through mutual friends and became the best of…
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16-year old Alexis always had a dream to join the Air Force. Last fall, that dream got a little closer when she was named Training Officer in her ROTC class. But this past March, her dream was shattered when a debilitating pain in her leg led to an MRI and a biopsy. The diagnosis: osteosarcoma…
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Up until this past January, Kayla was a normal, happy 5th grader. A dare-devil by nature, she loved to barrel race at high speeds in rodeos. Then some bad headaches led her to the emergency room where a CT scan showed the problem. A brain tumor. It was cancer. Ever since then, Kayla’s young life…
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Haley is 16 years old. Last November, she was diagnosed with a rare form of ovarian cancer…so rare that she is the only child ever to have been diagnosed with this particular type. Needless to say that between surgeries and chemo, Haley’s young life has been turned upside down. Before she got sick, she played…
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Yesterday was a big day for Team Summer. Bittersweet to say the least. We gave our first Team Summer gift without Summer. The gift recipient was a gentle 10-year old boy named Enrique who has leukemia. Diagnosed just this past summer, he has already been through so much, including four consecutive months in the hospital….
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Early this summer, 13-year-old Robbie was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in his left femur. He’s a great kid. Funny, fun, enthusiastic…even as he is facing some very rough times. When we told his mom we wanted to get him a Team Summer gift to help get his mind off things, she said she knew just what…
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We are so excited to announce two more Team Summer gifts! Two laptops for two boys in two different cities! When we met 13-year old Collin in Houston at MD Anderson, he had just been diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma two weeks earlier, and his family was still reeling. Collin was dealing with the reality that…
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Alan Sanders has not had an easy life. He’s only four, but he has been battling a rare sarcoma for the last three years. In his short life, he has been through multiple rounds of chemo, radiation and surgery. His room is just down the hall from us at MD Anderson in Houston, and he…
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