The Childhood Cancer Blog
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That’s right, summer may be over, but we’re continuing to “race” through the year. This past weekend, we celebrated our very first Max’s Ring of Fire Lemon Run in San Diego on Sunday, September 25, 2011. We’re happy to say that in our first year working with Max’s Ring of Fire (MROF), The MROF Lemon raised over $15,000 and saw over 300 participants come out to support the battle against childhood cancer. The 4.6 mile course,... Read More
When our daughter Alexandra “Alex” Scott was first diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a form of childhood cancer, it would be an understatement to say that our lives were turned upside down. As young parents (we were in our 20’s at the time), we were certainly scared, and part of the reason why was that we simply didn’t know anything about childhood cancer, especially the form Alex had. After walking out of the hospital, we were... Read More
September is a month when kids return to school, when we start to think about the impending fall season, and some of us even stretch our thoughts to the holiday season, which will no doubt quickly approach. What September is not, is a month when we think about losing our children to cancer, or having our lives turned upside down by a devastating diagnosis for our children. While many of our lives will be preoccupied with... Read More
