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- Courtney's Wish
WPTV NewsChannel 5 covers the story of 13 year-old Courtney Wolfe, a South Florida local working to raise money to build a facility for the Kids Cancer Foundation
- Kids Cancer Foundation
They say a picture's worth a thousand words, this may be a bit cliché, but it's true. This video shows the "what" of what the Kids' Cancer Foundation does, but more importantly, the "why."
- 2009 Golf Tournament
WPBF News 25 covers the 2009 Golf Tournament to benefit one of our young patients, Max Clark.
- One Mom's Perspective
WPTV NewsChannel 5 features Sandy Erb, mother of cancer survivor Ainsley Erb and member of the Kids Cancer Foundation.
Courtney's Wish (View Videos)
Courtney has spent the last three months in and out of the hospital. Though she still has a long, hard fight ahead of her, Courtney’s prognosis is good, and she maintains a cheerful disposition. She accepts that no one can adequately explain to her why she contracted leukemia, and she understands the risk that kids “like her” face every time they enter the hospital with weakened immune systems.
Despite the hardship that ALL has inflicted on her and her family, Courtney has a dream. Recently, after learning about another local child who lost her battle with leukemia as the result of an infection that was acquired during a stay in the hospital, Courtney determined that perhaps the reason she got leukemia was to lead a crusade to inform the public and to see that our community’s first, children’s outpatient cancer treatment center is built. Courtney wants to ensure that other local children battling cancer receive treatment, free of opportunistic infections, in a specialized outpatient center.
“Hospitals are full of sick people,” says Courtney, “so it is definitely not the best place for children who have weakened immune systems to be. It just puts us all at risk every time we go there. I want to change that so no other child or family ever has to worry about having to come to hospital for outpatient care and possibly contracting an infection that is even more deadly than the cancer they are already fighting.”
Courtney learned that her dream has a cost of more than six million dollars, but she is not deterred. Courtney has decided that she wants her “make a wish” to be the opportunity to share her dream with the nation. Her wish is to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Ellen Degeneres Show and the Today Show so that she can appeal to their more than six million viewers and ask them to open their hearts and donate one dollar each in order to make her wish come true.
