My name is Cordell Bartrum, I want to be a professional motocross racer, and I have an inoperable brain tumor. I was diagnosed when I was just three-years-old. I am now 16, and I want to call attention to this medical condition. My tumor is incurable due to its location. My mom said that she …
Riptide’s Benefit Concert and the Corned Beef Mafia’s Ride for Research in Honor of Kayla Wenger Jeanne Young and Eric Wenger Kayla enjoyed a normal childhood during her early years, much like her friends. She danced ballet, hula-hooped, jumped rope, played basketball, and played soccer. However, there was something different, and the difference in Kayla …
Our journey with the medical reality of a pediatric brain tumor started in Charlottesville, VA. Doctors at the University of Virginia told us that Jessica would be just fine. She had a benign tumor in her left lateral ventricle … they would “pop it out” surgically and then we could all get on with our …
We took our daughter, Hayley, to the general practitioner on Wednesday as she complained of a headache. He told us that it probably was a virus but to bring her back in Friday. My last question was, “Could it be a brain tumour?” Was it mother’s intuition? She was fine on Tuesday and on the …
October 15th, 2007 was a day my husband and I will never forget. I had run my first marathon the day before and was on a high. Ben was having a MRI done on his brain. Nothing to worry about we had been told by my doctor, “it will be fine.” Little did we know how …
The Daily Review, Morgan City, Louisiana By GEOFFREY STOUTE The family of a 4-year-old Morgan City girl who died last November from an inoperable brain tumor donated $25,000 Saturday to the Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation. The family of Ali Aucoin gathered at the young girl’s Morgan City home where her parents, Jarrod Aucoin and Spring …
Ricky Knight was a healthy, athletic intelligent 11-year-old who was exceling in school and sports when he was diagnosed with what would be identified as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) in his right parietal lobe. He had several severe headaches in December and January and then a seizure on April 27, 2007 which landed him in Johns …
We began noticing tiny things at first that something was not right with our then 3-year-old daughter. Ali appeared to have trouble focusing her eyes, her balance was off, and she became clumsy. After a couple incidents of falling and hurting herself, we took her to Teche Regional Medical Center in our hometown of Morgan …
Monday, September 15, 2008 marked the 10th anniversary of the annual Kyle’s Heroes Golf Tournament, held at Jumping Brook Country Club in Neptune, NJ. Each and every September for 10 years the number of golfers increases. The wonderful volunteers who organize the event are members of the Kyle’s Heroes family, some by blood, some by …
