By Megan (Steps For Brady)
We’ve all heard the expression, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade, right? What about when life gives you cancer? What then?
Thanks to a little girl named Alexandra Scott, those of us who have been touched by pediatric cancer can take our experience and use it to make a difference. Alex had cancer, life gave her that lemon, and she decided to make lemonade.
Alex Scott was an amazing girl who was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma just before her first birthday. In the year 2000, she decided that she wanted to have a lemonade stand to raise money to help doctors find a cure for childhood cancer. Tragically at the age of 8, Alex lost her battle with cancer, but at the time of her death, she had raised 1 million dollars towards cancer research. The Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation has since raised over 25 million dollars through the hard work of children and families all over the world who hold lemonade stands in their community.
This year our family is hosting an Alex’s Lemonade Stand on September 6th and 7th during our town’s annual Labor Day celebration. We will be selling lemonade in honor of our son Brady who was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma in January of this year. When something like this happens in your family, you are quickly thrust into an ugly world that you never knew existed. While dealing with the horror that is the world of pediatric cancer, you realize that you just HAVE to do something to help fight this disease. Our lemonade stand will help make a difference in Brady’s life and in the lives of so many children in the world. Isn’t it awesome that we can each make a small difference in our world by doing something out of love?
Megan is a fellow blogger who is a stay-at-home mom to four wonderful kids under the age of two. She blogs to tell the story of her precious son Brady diagnosed with neuroblastoma on January 21, 2009.