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Help us and Adis fight back against brain cancer

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My story is really my step sons story, we went from treating what we thought was a gastrointestinal problem to finding that he had a tumor at the base of his brain. Thankfully he made it through this very dangerous surgery at the University of Iowa Hospital, they are exceptional people and he is recovering, albeit slowly. Everything is day to day. The picture is my young five year old son holding his older brothers hand. We since learned this is rare cancer for adults, its usually found in the very young and adolescents. The next steps are full of radiation and chemo therapy over the next seven weeks after he is strong enough and then a more limited chemo therapy after that. My wife will be unable to work through this period so she can focus on taking care of him while I take care of our five year old.  We have never asked for help help before but one income is not nearly enough to get us through this.  If you can imagine having 22 surgeons on hand for the surgery.  I’m not sure what to expect here, I’m not social media savvy by any means but were looking for a miracle here and any help we can receive. I know there are many generous people out there. We’ve always donated are time and money as we could never knowing that we may some day be impacted in this way. Please share this and help if you can. Please send prayers and hope to all that are effected by this horrible disease. I thought I would share a photo from the Stead Family Hospital for children at the University of Iowa Hospitals. This of course is the view the children see during a game. I thought everyone would enjoy this and hope that all never have to be there to experience it first hand.
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  • Gena Wadle
    • $50 
    • 4 yrs
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Kurt VanPelt
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West Des Moines, IA

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