An ESPN report by Coley Harvey really brought to light how close to home Pediatric Cancer has hit the Bengals organization and Devon Still. In June, Still found out his four year old daughter has stage-4 Neuroblastoma cancer and a 50-50 shot at survival. As a father, I know it would be hard to find out news like that, but Still has battled on while earning a spot on the Bengals practice squad.
The Cincinnati Bengals (and Devon Still) decided to take it one step further, not only to ensure that Still had a paycheck and health insurance for his daughter, but to contribute to the effort directly
On top of the Bengals donating the proceeds from Still’s jersey sales, Devon Still has also set up a fundraiser at pldgit.com. You can sign up to donate money per sack. Proceeds from Still’s Fundraiser will benefit the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which happen to be leaders in research for pediatric cancer.
And while “Mini” Timmy Tyrrell turns 10 on Monday, he’s been raising money for kids with cancer since he was six years old. He vows to never stop; in 2010, his friend Ella Day was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
“He saw the need and he wanted to help,” Ella Day’s mother, Karen Day, says of “Mini.” “He wanted to do anything he could do to help, [for] a six-year-old, that to me is astonishing.”
On the eve of his birthday, “Mini” has raised more than $200,000 for cancer research. Sunday, at the E.G. Smith Baseball Complex in Manassas, 400 players attended the third-annual kickball tournament to raise money for children with cancer.
“It’s All About M.E.” tells the story of 2-year-old Matthew Erickson’s courageous battle with cancer. It will be screened at AMC Empire Theaters in Times Square.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Gill Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, have made significant progress in defining new genetic causes of Wilms tumor, a type of kidney cancer found only in children.
Wilms tumor is the most common childhood genitourinary tract cancer and the third most common solid tumor of childhood.
“What I want to do with my life is continue it,” Kayla said.
“I don’t know how long they can maintain my cancer,” she said. “I don’t know if it is a year, three years or nine. But I have hopes and dreams and things I want to accomplish.”
For now she’s living her dream as a college student — only now with a plan to be a nurse practitioner treating childhood cancer.
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Kayla’s other dream right now is to raise money and awareness for childhood cancer. In her first fund-raising venture she raised $15,000 for research. She’s now shooting for $400,000.
“My hair was long and ratty and it looked terrible, and I just got sick of trying to take care of it and trying to make it look decent,” he told the crowd at Hawk’s Mane Event, the fundraiser he held at his house on June 28 to benefit his foundation for children with cancer. “I was just going to chop it off and show up the next day at football and not say anything.
“My wife, being the smart lady she is, said, ‘Nah, we have to do something with it.’ I was just going to send it off to Wigs for Kids and hopefully put it toward making a wig for a kid going through chemo. [But] we decided to start our own thing.”
Their “own thing” was Hawk’s Locks for Kids, which provides supporting patient care of women and children throughout the Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center at the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. The main goal of the charity has been to provide wigs for children who have lost their hair due to their battle with cancer.
MANASSAS, Va. – A Virginia family has come up with a special way to honor their son. They’re working with other children diagnosed with the same kind of cancer he had, and their unique approach has them raising a glass.
Jeremy Meyers brews beer, but the recipe is all heart. He and his wife, Sarah, founded Bad Wolf Brewing Company in Manassas because they love craft beer, too. The atmosphere at their brewery is so comfortable that the first time Mickey Johnson came in as a customer, he told the Meyers about his son Cody, who died of cancer when he was just 6 years old.
Profits from the sale of the beer will go toward the Cody’s Crew Foundation to fund childhood cancer research.
