Thursday, February 4, 2010

Children's Memorial Hospital AON center CLIMB

On Sunday, I climbed 80 flights of stairs to help support Children's Memorial Hospital children and family services.  I climbed with a team from work, Peyton's Pals.  10 of us climbed to raise money for the hospital.  It took about 19 minutes to climb the stairs, and was well worth it for our cause.

Why we climbed?  We climbed for Peyton!  One of my coworkers son Peyton who is 3, has cancer.  He has been battling Germ Cell Cancer, and just finished his treatment.  He is such a happy, vibrant and brave little boy!  Through the cancer treatments he called the port in his chest, his badge of honor.  The chemo he received was dragon juice.  How the mind of a three year old works!  And was a trooper through all his treatments and surgery.

The family just had his PET scan and he is doing great.  The nodules in his lungs are down to 1-2 mm(instead of 10 mm) and the doctors think it is just scar tissue, so he is getting another scan in 3 months to confirm.  But we are hopeful that Peyton is in remission.