My 2-year-old daughter Addilinn was diagnosed April 13 with neruoblastoma cancer. She has to go through surgery, chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, radiation and therapy (at the Showers Family Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders). On July 30, we got the surgery behind us. Dr. Aaron Garrison removed as much as the tumor as […]
After Battling Cancer, Young Gymnast Pushes on
Elijah Harper sat on the couch in his family’s Akron home, flipping a pencil end over end, moving it through the air to resemble a gymnast flipping across the floor. “He does this all the time,” said his mother, Pepin Harper. Elijah, 9, taught himself gymnastics by watching YouTube videos and tumbling in his backyard. […]
Bone cancer doesn’t slow down this survivor
While at a dirt bike race in June of 2012, Brandon O’Donnell noticed some pain in his left knee. At first he thought he had torn his meniscus, so the next day he went to his orthopedic surgeon to get an MRI. The MRI revealed the cause of his pain was osteosarcoma, a common form […]
A little more than a year after cancer diagnosis, Luke is once again active and healthy
Luke Ritchey was never what his mom, Sharon, would call a sick kid. Growing up, he never had so much as an ear infection. But things took an unexpected turn when Luke started to have a headache on Christmas Eve 2013
