Team Summer recently heard about a very special little boy. 5-year old Kourtney came into this world three months prematurely, weighing only 1 lb, 9 oz. He spent his first nine months in the hospital. For the first year and a half of his life, he breathed only with the help of a ventilator. Then this past…
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12-year old Antonio is the kind of kid that when you mention his name to people, their faces light up, and they say, “Ohhhhh, Antonio! I LOVE Antonio.” He’s just a really sweet boy. Last September, Antonio’s world turned upside down when a lump behind his ear led to a diagnosis of leukemia lymphoma. So…
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Posted by Lynne Dale, Summer’s mom. Last night, Summer and I had the pleasure of meeting 7-year-old Julia Cobb, who is fighting bone cancer. Early last December, her mom discovered a lump on her shoulder blade. The diagnosis of Ewing’s sarcoma came just three days before Christmas. Currently living in Alabama, the family made a…
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A year ago, 20-year-old Lacey had it all. A dance scholarship to college… …and the beginnings of a career in modeling. Then her left leg starting hurting. She thought it was just a pulled muscle, something dancers feel all the time. But the pain didn’t go away. And then it started hurting more. She was stunned…
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This is Josiah. He is 2 1/2 years old. When we met him, he had just been diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a cancer that forms in nerve tissue. We learned that his mother had already been incapacitated by a serious illness and his grandmother was struggling to pick up the pieces. She told us that Josiah…
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Sarah is 11 years old, and Summer met her in the cancer clinic waiting room. Summer was immediately struck by the unfairness of someone that young having to deal with cancer. Then she learned that this was Sarah’s second bout with the disease – the first when she was just eight years old. Sarah was…
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