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Let's get it started!


By kevin - Posted on 26 January 2005

Howdy Howdy,

I just want to start by saying that Fun With Cancer is going to be a place for kids and families who are dealing with their new life. Yes I count it as a new life. The changes are that big, and that drastic. It’s not easy, and the hardest thing to find after someone you love, especially a child, has been diagnosed with cancer is joy. But you need it. We all need it. Happiness not only improves healing, it keeps your soul healthy.
My son Aaron, who is turning five years old today, was diagnosed with Burkett’s Lymphoma on December 16’th 2004.
It was a devastating blow to us.
But, we are trying to have fun, enjoy our life, and take all the steps needed to get Aaron into recovery and back to his normal life.
It’s not easy, and sometimes the stress and frustration brings us to our knees. That’s just going to happen. We can try to minimize its impact, but it is still going to happen.
So that everything is clear, it is my full intent to make FunWithCancer.org a tax exempt non profit dedicated to helping children and their families keep a positive attitude and outlook on the new lives they have, trying to beat cancer.

I want to thank Quentin Baker and John Wilger, for making this website happen.
I just mentioned that I would like to do this and within a week they had it registered hosted and ready to go. You guys are the best.

FunWithCancer.org
Here is what I want to do, in the short form.

Through interactive media and games provide children with information and enjoyment that lets them have a greater understanding and thusly a greater level of control over living with and surviving cancer.

Provide tips and tools to children dealing with cancer that they can use to lessen the psychological emotional and physical hardships caused by cancer.

Provide information in a format children can understand. Lessons, or Shows, that engage them and speak to their needs and level of understanding.

Provide tips and tools to parents of children with cancer that can lessen the burdens they face in trying to live life through all of the extreme situations cancer treatments put them through with travel, financial, emotional, and social stresses.

Give younger (toddlers) children visual tools that work across the internet that they can use to communicate with each other and express themselves to other children who have cancer.

Thank you.
Check back soon. Changes will be made and we will get this sucker rollin.

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I know a lot of people and would be interested in being involved in any way that helps. My prayers go out to your son and each member of your family.

My prayers go out to you and your family and will do my best to offer any help I can.

Kevin,

Best wishes for your site and your mission. What you are doing for Aaron and other sick children is just the best gift you can give them. One thing is for sure. You never have to ask yourself again what you were put on this earth to do. You are Aaron's hero.

Lots of well wishes.

Vickie Day

Eeek. I can only assume your site is like mine in that you have to approve comments before they appear. Forgive my fifty-million posts. ;-)

Thanks guys.
At least YOU GUYS can drop a comment for 3.
Not like SOME PEOPLE!

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