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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Jake recently turned 13. Because he is Jewish, that means a bar mitzvah. And because there’s a bar mitzvah, that means lots of gifts..many in the form of cash. Jake has blown us away because he just donated a huge portion of that money to Team Summer! We invited him to go along as we…
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Six-year old Lexi was diagnosed with leukemia earlier this month. Her family is still adjusting to the shock of the diagnosis and its financial implications. Lexi’s dad, Josh, is in the construction business, but hasn’t been able to work since Lexi got sick. Ironically, the last job Josh had was putting a new roof on…
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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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