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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The Egg Toss is the highlight of a picnic we go to every year. Teams of two line up in two long rows, facing each other. On command, one team member tosses an egg to the other (hence the name). Here’s where it gets fun. Before every turn, the team members have take one step…
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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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From Summer’s mom: I just got a call from Summer’s stepmom, Cynthia. She was crying. But not for the reason that has us all crying these days – the shocking discovery of five tumors in Summer’s brain. She was crying because she just checked the donation list for Team Summer. People from all over –…
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Last Sunday, just four days after a routine lung surgery to remove five small tumors on Summer’s right lung, something unexpected happened. Without warning, Summer suddenly lost the ability to move her right arm and right leg. These alarming symptoms led to an MRI of her brain, where five tumors were discovered. This came as…
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Summer got the surprise of a lifetime yesterday when two of her closest friends walked into her hospital room at MD Anderson in Houston. The pair flew all the way from Atlanta to be with Summer as she faced her toughest cancer challenge yet – brain surgery. These are not just any friends. They are…
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What would you do if your 7-year old daughter was diagnosed with cancer? In order to get young Julia the best possible care, Jennifer and Jonathan Cobb made a radical decision. They split up their close-knit family. Jennifer, the mom, took Julia and baby Jaxie to live in Houston for nine months so Julia…
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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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Summer and Team Summer were the subject of an Invisible Children blog this week! If you’ve ever heard of the documentary “Kony 2012”, which went viral earlier this year on YouTube, you know that Invisible Children is the organization behind the movement to capture Joseph Kony and bring him to justice. Kony leads Uganda’s LRA,…
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This is Lynne Dale, Summer’s mom. As an administrator of the Team Summer Facebook page, I get to see the number of people who click on or see every post. For example, the one that started “Never doubt the power of the human heart,” was seen by 3,378 people. Another entitled “Surgery is over!”, 5200…
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