The Childhood Cancer Blog
The Childhood Cancer Blog
When Lauren graduates, Lauren plans on turning lemons into lemonade by using her unique experiences in a clinical setting to offer the sincerest personal support to her patients.
Maisie is taking classes to become a certified medical assistant and plans to attend nursing school to become a nurse midwife.
Every childhood cancer hero faces unique challenges on the path to finding their cure. That’s why having a dedicated and compassionate medical team can make all the difference. National Nurses Week is celebrated each May in honor of all the devoted healthcare workers whose care and expertise helps their patients.
For childhood cancer heroes Lauren and Maisie, their experiences in the hospital didn’t just give them a future – it determined how they wanted to spend it. After spending some of their most formative years in treatment, here are two heroes who are using their careers to... Read More
The Scott Family hosted a stand at the Preakness Stakes. Afleet Alex stumbled in that race, but went on to win. In a post-race interview, when asked how he managed to hang on, jockey Jeremy Rose replied, “An angel kept me safe. There was someone up there who helped us. Little Alex kept me on.”
His owners invited the Scott Family to set up a lemonade stand at Churchill Downs. Afleet Alex would come in third at the Kentucky Derby, but the media found out the story of the two Alexs.
While extended family members hosted the lemonade stand at Belmont Stakes, Liz, Jay and Alex’s three brothers manned Alex’s Original in Wynnewood, PA. They set up a TV so everyone could watch Afleet Alex’s last Triple Crown race.
Twenty years ago, Liz Scott got a call from one of the owners of a racehorse named Afleet Alex. The person on the line mentioned they had a horse that was "pretty good" and they’d been donating anonymously to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) whenever the horse won. They wanted to keep donating, but go public with their support.
The caller, one of the horse’s co-owners, asked Liz what she thought.
“I knew nothing about horse racing at the time,” recalled Liz, “But my husband, Jay, and I thought, why not?”
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Eighteen years ago, when my daughter Lily was diagnosed with a brain tumor, I knew nothing. I guessed that brain tumors in 14-month-old babies were rare. I knew this diagnosis would devastate us, but I didn’t know if her tumor was “cancer” or even really understand how cancer worked. I didn’t know there were treatments and, if there were treatments, if they would leave Lily severely disabled. I didn’t know there were other families like ours, some just down the hall in the PICU, facing the same grim, terrifying diagnosis.
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