BuffaloNews.com

6/13/2015

Brady Williams can be found many a summer day running around a T-ball diamond in Oakfield, but that just begins to tell the story of an 8-year-old triplet nearly paralyzed as a toddler.

He hit many of his milestones during the first year of his life before brother Eli and sister Cara, but then he started to regress. Doctors at first thought he had cerebral palsy, but a CT scan when he was 18 months old showed he had a massive, cancerous tumor that had started in his chest and wrapped around his spine. Surgeons at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City removed almost all of it. The tiny shard that remains hasn’t grown since.

That’s why the Genesee County family makes lemonade every Labor Day weekend, and will do so this weekend as well, this time as the New York Hero State Family Representative for Lemonade Stand Day, to benefit Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. The foundation funds research and treatment of pediatric cancers. The family will serve lemonade from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Elroy Parkins Park at 37 Drake St., in Oakfield, said Megan Williams, Brady’s mom.

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