Your support will help MAKE MORE DREAMS COME TRUE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON AND INTO 2021.
Dreams have continued to come true because of you. Thank you. But things have been very challenging here at The Dream Factory.
Your gift today will help bring the dreams of kids battling life-threatening illnesses in Manitoba to life.
Kids like Andie.
Pictured: Andie and her family at her last chemo treatment.
with your support, THE CORONAVIRUS WILL NOT RESTRICT DREAMS.
“In 2018, we were having a pool party,” Andie’s mom says, “and I noticed a little bump on Andie’s neck.” It was small, hardly anything.
It didn’t seem serious. They didn’t know it then, but Andie’s journey with cancer had begun. She was 12.
In the meantime, the new school year was starting up, and Andie returned to her routine of classes and sports. But she was coming home exhausted every day. This was very unusual for her.
A few months later, it got worse. She was tired and feverish. But after a few days in bed, she started feeling better, and went back to school and volleyball.
That’s when Andie noticed some small masses on her neck. She cried out to her mom: “What are these?!” Andie’s mom looked.
“My heart sank,” she says.
Andie went to the doctor, then a specialist, and the tests revealed the devastating news: Andie had lymphoma.
“It felt like a bad dream,” Andie’s mom says. Andie had surgery and chemotherapy, but stayed strong and positive through it all. “I was so happy to finish my cancer treatments,” she says, “and to be cancer-free.”
With everything she’s been through, Andie deserves her dream. She was hoping to visit Disney World, but the coronavirus made travel impossible. So she had to change her dream, and she chose a swimming pool for her backyard.
We’re all dealing with uncertainty because of the coronavirus. But we can’t let COVID-19 and the challenges that have come with it steal the dreams from Dream Kids.
Your gift will allow Dreams to continue, closer to home.
Please give today. For a kid like Andie.
Pictured: Andie and her furry friend.