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My brother, Brad, was diagnosed with a Rhabdomyosarcoma February 14, 2008 at the age of 20. He became a patient at Oregon Health Science University where he brought joy to doctors, nurses, other patients, and his many visitors with his positive attitude and constant smile. Brads passion was dancing and during his lengthy hospital stays we would make hospital dancing videos. These often featured nurses and other hospital staff. Brad became well known at OHSU as the "hospital dancer."
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 Chelsey Rae Ebert
2/14/1992 - 12/26/2007This amazing little girl enters this world with a fight. Born with a life threatening heart defect know as transposition of the great vessels, and requiring open heart surgery at seven days old. Chelsey has only understood what it was like to battle for life, her entire life. The determination and the passion she had to simply live her life to the fullest were apparent in everything she did.
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 Jenna Susana Westerholm was born on July 2, 2003. On January 23, 2006 we noticed a small vaginal growth. After an attempted surgery to remove the growth, CT scans, bone tests, etc., we found out on February 8th that the growth was embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft tissue cancer.
Immediately Jenna started chemotherapy, mostly outpatient, for about eleven months. She was declared cancer free, but relapsed by her first three month check-up. Her surgeon tried again to remove the tumor, but the margins were not clear. This time Jenna had stronger chemo, all inpatient, staying in the hospital for three to five days.
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 Ever since I was three years old basketball was my passion, that's all I ever knew and all I ever wanted to do.
In July of 2002, I started feeling pain while with my high school basketball team at Gonzaga University. It wasn't just any pain, this pain was severe. It kept me from sleeping and even walking at times. Unfortunately, my time there at Gonzaga was the last time I would ever step on the court again. After seeing multiple specialists, I was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma on Oct 14th, 2002. Osteosarcoma is a rare form of bone cancer that strikes less than a thousand people a year.
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