For Amanda, life was pretty normal until last year. You know, the usual – the fun of being a junior in high school, hanging out with her friends. So normal you don’t even know it’s normal. Then the pain started in her knee. And it just got worse. An MRI told the story – Amanda…
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It should have been nothing more than a slip and fall for 10-year-old Landon. Sure, it hurt – he landed right on his tailbone – but that should have been the end of it. Except it wasn’t. Instead of getting better, Landon got worse – to the point where he was having trouble getting up…
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TEAM SUMMER IS ADAPTING! We will not let a virus stop us!! COVID-19 has affected all of us in so many ways. As you might imagine, adapting to a new normal at Team Summer has been especially challenging. Chemotherapy is designed to suppress our kids’ immune systems, making them among the most susceptible to the virus….
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Remember Davis? He’s the kid who wanted to give a gift before he got one! Talk about a Team Summer heart! In the last blog post, we told you that he contacted Team Summer asking if he could give a gift to his friend who was battling leukemia. We told him “absolutely!” but first we…
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Usually we find out about kids with cancer when our Team Summer kids nominate them for a Team Summer gift. But with 11-year-old Davis, it all happened kind of…well…opposite! When Davis found out about Team Summer, rather than dreaming about what he might get, he started planning what he wanted to give. How awesome is that? That’s…
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Every kid looks forward to graduating from high school and heading off to college. For Macy, that did not happen. After graduation, she had gastrointestinal issues. But even after her gallbladder was removed, something was still not right. She wasn’t walking straight, and she had blurred vision and headaches. An MRI located the problem. It…
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When you’re nineteen years old, this is not a diagnosis you expect to hear: breast cancer. Yet, that’s exactly what Cierra heard last August. She was in her sophomore year of college, studying nursing, of all things. You can only imagine how Cierra’s life was suddenly turned upside down. Team Summer kid Luke and Cierra…
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While Team Summer waits for the coronavirus to pass and it’s safe for kids with cancer to be together again, we’re telling some stories of past gifts! Nine-year-old Patrick slowly started acting differently. He was tired and didn’t want to play. Then one day, his pupils got very large, and his body began to get…
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On November 11th, the seventh anniversary of Summer Dale’s passing, Team Summer launched its annual Matching Gift Fund! A group of amazing Team Summer supporters have pledged a pool of $20,000 and challenged donors to match it! That means if you contribute $50, Team Summer gets $100; if you donate $100, Team Summer gets…
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Anyone who follows our Team Summer kids knows how difficult chemo treatments can be on their bodies. But no one knows that better than 21-year-old Kristen. If she had been able to follow the path she set for herself, she’d have had her nursing degree by last May. But brain cancer, discovered about a year…
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