46/7 Childhood Cancer Awareness Ribbon Campaign

"They ride tricycles in the hallway, not in the park. They know the names of their chemos instead of their classmates. Their central lines have names. Nurses and doctors are their new family. They think hair is over rated! Their laughter can make a heart melt! Their strength will make a grown person cry! If you've ever seen a kid fight cancer, it will change your life forever.....It has ours,
"Our Son is a SURVIVOR"

...She love's the smell of fresh flowers, when she is able to smell. She love's the color's of the pretty flower's when she is awake and can see them.

She has a 1 in 5 chance to grow up and learn the names of the pretty flower's......

Shawnna managed to smile for this photo. Most of the time she is too sick to even open her eyes to see who's in her Hospital room.

Shawnna has a new little Brother who she Love's so much, and she like's to brag about him to the nurse's when her Mom brings him to see her.

Shawnna told her Mom that she hope's she doesn't die before he is able to talk to her.

Brian asked his friend if he knew when he was gonna die.......

His friend said no, I don't know when I'm gonna die......

Brian said I know when I'm gonna die, my Doctor told my Mommy that I only have 3 more months to live

Just a week after her 4th Birthday, Abigail Beth was diagnosed with a stage 3 Wilms’ Tumor, a childhood cancer of the kidney. That night her entire world crumbled into pieces. Cancer? How could that happen? Abby was just four. Kids aren’t supposed to get cancer! Abby’s mommy and daddy suffered nightmares, panic attacks, depression, and imagined what her funeral would be like........

Wednesday, February 25, 2009, our family heard these words. Our youngest, Gregory, was diagnosed with Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia. At the tender age of three. His only option for survival was a bone marrow transplant.

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One in five children/teens diagnosed with cancer do not survive.

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Three of the four survivors face at least one life-long, chronic, life threatening condition.

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These children are frequently left infertile.

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They face neurological and developmental deficits.

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Growth Failure

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The average life span for a childhood cancer survivor is 30 years post diagnosis.