Thank you for helping us make Bella's wish come true!
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Cal's Angels, a St. Charles based wish granting organization to make Bella's wish for a treehouse come true. www.calsangels.org
ALGONQUIN – Behind a black and white photograph of a little girl and a dog – taken before everything changed – lies a note of hope and determination. Its contents: “Bella wrote this – I realy want to be strong and I am because I believe in myself and you should too.”
Seven-year-old Bella Yakos even signed the loose-leaf note in scribbled, adult-like flourishes. This, according to her father, Ryan Yakos, was written sometime in October, just a few months after Bella was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma.
She and her family will be joined by 20 to 30 people Sunday for this year’s Move the Kids 5K Walk/Run, which benefits the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, where Bella has spent more than 120 days so far. The group will walk under the name, Team Bella Strong.
Neuroblastoma, more common in infants and children younger than age 5, forms in a person’s nerve tissue. For the Yakos family, it all started with some fairly uncharacteristic fatigue and weight loss. “One day we were talking to her while she was eating, and she just fell asleep,” her mom, Jen Yakos, said. “We knew that wasn’t normal so we took her into the doctor’s office, and it was that same day that we ended up at the hospital.”
It was every parent’s worst nightmare realized. One side of Jen’s brain refused to believe it was as bad as cancer. But the other side, she said, just knew. Part of the shock stemmed from just how extensive Bella’s case was from the get-go. After initial scans and tests, a tumor about the size of a football was found inside the petite 7-year-old girl. GoFundMe account for the family. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20150802/news/150809811/
Seven-year-old Bella Yakos even signed the loose-leaf note in scribbled, adult-like flourishes. This, according to her father, Ryan Yakos, was written sometime in October, just a few months after Bella was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma.
She and her family will be joined by 20 to 30 people Sunday for this year’s Move the Kids 5K Walk/Run, which benefits the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, where Bella has spent more than 120 days so far. The group will walk under the name, Team Bella Strong.
Neuroblastoma, more common in infants and children younger than age 5, forms in a person’s nerve tissue. For the Yakos family, it all started with some fairly uncharacteristic fatigue and weight loss. “One day we were talking to her while she was eating, and she just fell asleep,” her mom, Jen Yakos, said. “We knew that wasn’t normal so we took her into the doctor’s office, and it was that same day that we ended up at the hospital.”
It was every parent’s worst nightmare realized. One side of Jen’s brain refused to believe it was as bad as cancer. But the other side, she said, just knew. Part of the shock stemmed from just how extensive Bella’s case was from the get-go. After initial scans and tests, a tumor about the size of a football was found inside the petite 7-year-old girl. GoFundMe account for the family. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20150802/news/150809811/
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Healthy Roots has been granting wishes for the past three years. We work with Cal’s Angles to do nice things for children and
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