Team Caden: A Little Hero’s Big Battle

Have you ever met a 10-year-old that seems like a 30-year-old?!?! If not, you should sit down with Caden Hutcheson for 15 mins. The son of Stephen and Mary Anne Hutcheson....the kid is witty and hilarious, thoughtful, observant, and intelligent. He LOVES football and is a student of the game. Ask him about Tom Brady, and you will be his captive audience for a while. He’s also never met a Fortnite skin he didn’t like. His brain is sharp and his personality is charismatic and magnetic. Caden lacks nothing… besides one thing. His body doesn’t produce a protein called dystrophin. Dystrophin is crucial for muscle cell structure and function, and its absence leads to muscle weakness and degeneration. You probably know of this genetic disease as muscular dystrophy. There’s currently no cure for it. The positive news is that there is a BRAND NEW treatment for this disease, and though it doesn’t cure it, the hope is that it drastically slows the process.

They are living in Nashville, Tennessee for the next several weeks and receiving treatments at Vanderbilt University. After the first phase of treatment, they have to make weekly trips from Blackshear, GA to Nashville (15-hour round trip) for the next 6 weeks for Caden’s check-ups.

Here’s where we can all help the Hutcheson family, which, by the way, isn’t asking for our help but I am asking on their behalf.

We have a goal to raise $15,000 to help offset the financial burden on their family over the next year. I believe it’s a realistic goal to get behind and ask everyone that can give, to open up your hearts and wallets to help us help them. Thank you!!