It was just natural when Matt and Megan Williams had triplets they would compare their progress.
Brady, Cara and Eli arrived together on April 24, 2007, and together they learned to smile, to laugh and to crawl. They were happy, healthy siblings for their first 20 months.
“And then we noticed one stopped meeting his milestones,” Megan said.
This month, young cancer survivor and Greenville resident Brayden Bateman will represent his home state in the nationwide cancer-research fundraiser, Alex’s Lemonade Days.
A local volunteer is helping Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer.
The second annual Simon and Borchert Family Garage Sale and Lemonade Stand will be held from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. on June 12 and June 13 at 529 16th Avenue in Owatonna.
Ilaria Easom was just 3 years old when doctors found a fist-sized cancerous tumor in her chest. The tumor had collapsed her right lung, squeezed her heart and twisted itself around her trachea.
WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS, GO TO CAMPBELL: There's a lot to do in Campbell this weekend. The monthly "Second Saturdays" event features plenty of music and art from 2 to 6 p.m. all along Campbell Avenue, and downtown boutiques and other merchants will have their wares on display outdoors as part of a sidewalk sale.
After six surgeries, 14 cycles of chemotherapy and 25 rounds of radiation, Brianna Mercado's doctors said she won her battle against Ewing’s sarcoma, a life-threatening bone cancer that affects mainly children and adolescents.
Even though 15-year-old Mercado missed her sophomore year in high school because of treatments, she always kept a positive outlook.
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.
Lauren is bright, strong and mature - she's been through more than most kids her age and is still battling a low-grade glioma. She is currently attending college pursuing a nursing degree so she can help other kids with cancer.
