Caroline, one of the Vanderbilt Rally Team members, thought that it would be fun to make cards for the kids at Vanderbilt Children's for St. Patrick's Day. We decided to set a table outside of the entrance to the dining hall and get other students to help out. By the end of the night, I finally figured out how to draw a shamrock, and Tom was well on his way. ha ha. just kidding Tom. Great job Caroline.
~ Austin
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Gabe's My Heart


I met Lu and Gabe a few weeks ago, and we are planning on meeting again this Friday to discuss ways that we can team up this summer. Currently "chemo-ducks" are only available in a few hospitals, and we think that it would be great to donate a few "chemo-ducks" to each hospital that we visit this summer.
~ Austin
To read more about Gabe's story, click here
Monday, March 27, 2006
Amelia May
In each city, we are riding in honor of local kids with cancer. Here is the story of Amelia, a little girl in Nashville whose mother, Yvonne, just contacted me last week. We've been emailing back and forth, and we are hoping to get together soon so that Tom and I can meet Amelia. Yvonne was nice enough to share their story with us:


Amelia was diagnosed with Retinoblastoma, a cancer of the eye, in June of 2005 at the age of 3 1/2. What we first thought was pink eye or "allergy" eyes was actually glaucoma and redness from the pressure of the tumor growing in her eye. By the time we knew she had cancer, it had already taken the sight in her eye and the only was to keep it from spreading was to enucleate [remove] her affected eye. Her other eye remains healthy, and her cancer did not move so far that she needed chemotherapy, which was a huge blessing. She will need close and continuous follow ups for many years to keep her healthy and protect the vision in her healthy eye. Amelia will always need to wear glasses, too, to protect her healthy eye- they are purple which is very groovy. She knows she has "her Amelia eye, a Princess [prosthetic] eye, and Princess glasses" - because she is just like a princess when she wears them! At this writing, she loves Care Bears, Ponies, Veggie Tales, Thomas the Tank Engine, computers, going to the zoo, and sandwiches of any kind as long as they are cut into triangles.
~Austin
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