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Our Honored Heroes
Graciela Eastridge
“I am incredibly lucky to be so healthy. I have some leg weakness and a scar on my chest but other than that I’m perfectly fine. I know many others who have to deal with so much more than I do.”
Gracie has just had her 11 year anniversary of being cancer free!
“I was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at four years old. I had been bruising really easily and had pain in my legs, and after a blood test they confirmed that I had cancer. I had to have chemotherapy so all my hair fell out, and I had surgery to implant a portacath into my chest that they would use to connect the IV to my veins to give me the chemo and other medication.
I was in and out of the hospital for a bit and eventually I was well enough to go back home for good. I still had to have medical checkups to make sure the cancer would stay away and had a little bit of chemo given to me every month for about two years. After that was over, I was able to take the portacath out! I still have a yearly checkup, but as it has been over ten years since I was officially done with everything, I am essentially cured.”🥰
This drawing was inspired by a spot Gracie and her twin sister hike to at her summer camp, which is for cancer kids and their siblings.
Gracie’s story made Tristan and I even more passionate and was a visual representation of our vision with Connect and Cure, as we aspire to build a community of friends and families to help combat cancer.
Señora Casper
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