Alex G.Follow

Alex is an amazing 6 1/2 year old boy who's world was changed in the Fall of 2009. After just 2 months of Kindergarten, Alex was diagnosed with Stage IV Wilms Tumor. Right away he started chemotherapy treatment including 15 days of radiation treatments and over the course of 6 months he had several surgeries. Today, we are overjoyed to be able to say that Alex is in remission and is doing beyond well! While he finished out Kindergarten last year in a homebound program, Alex was able to start 1rst grade this year right beside all his friends at a new school and he is doing amazing! While he missed our event last year due to the illness, he is very much looking forward to getting to come this year!

We are participating again in the St. Baldrick's event to aid in the effort to raise money for Childhood Cancer research. Alex, like so many other wonderful and amazing children, now have a very grown-up reality that they face day to day. Being bald is something that even the youngest of children quickly become selfconscious about. Help us show our children what we always preach - that being "different" is nothing to be ashamed of and its what makes us all unique.