Navy visit to kids with cancer brings smiles
Navy visit to kids with cancer brings smiles
By Kristen M. Daum
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Published: June 11, 2008
Aluminum foil, feathers, ribbons, tinsel and glitter of all colors covered the craft table of the Jimmy Everest Cancer Center at OU Medical Center, as child cancer patients visited Tuesday morning with local Navy servicemen.
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Visit was a joyful distraction
For the children, the naval officers' visit served as a joyful distraction, said Jenny Rodgers, 24, a 10-year-survivor of Hodgkin's lymphoma who works at the cancer center.
"It just brightens their spirits and gives them a reason to keep fighting,” Rodgers said.
Eight-year-old Malachi Struthers has stage four myoblastoma, a cancer that attacks muscle tissue.
On Tuesday, Malachi was all smiles as he competed with his 13-year-old sister, Morgan, to build the better aluminum-foil sailboat.
"I like the boats, but I don't like the tape,” Malachi joked, as he fought off a tangled roll of clear tape.
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