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DAILY DRAWS JUNE 17-21 The We All Win Lottery Wild Week of Winning will change four lives forever, as we give away 4 townhomes from Urbandale Construction, fully furnished by Sears Home Store. But that’s not all, 15 lucky winners will walk away $10,000 richer, 15 others will win a $5,000 Sears Travel voucher and five people will drive away in a luxury vehicle from Myers Automotive Group. HURRY – ORDER YOUR TICKETS BY FRIDAY, MAY 31 AT MIDNIGHT FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN! VEHICLES FROM TRAVEL VOUCHERS WORTH PRIZES OF EACH Lottery License 5516 R0012122728
Writing my own happy ending with CHEO’s help By Vienna Arbic with Isabelle Mailloux Pulkinghorn My name is Vienna and I am nine years old. I’m in grade three, play defense on my hockey team, and enjoy doing crafts and writing stories. I love spending time with my parents Sherry and Richard Arbic, and my friends. And I have cancer. My ‘real’ life had to be put on hold while the doctors at CHEO help me get rid of cancer. Mine is called Germ cell tumor, a very rare form of brain cancer - and I want it to go away. If this were a story I came up with, there wouldn’t be a port-a-cath, operations and chemotherapy involved. I wouldn’t need lumbar punctures and I could be home with my parents and my dogs instead of in the hospital. I’d be playing hockey and graduating grade three with everyone in my class. If this were a story I made up, it’d be funny like the Robert Munsch books that I love so much. But cancer is serious. One day at hockey practice I hurt my head and ended up with a concussion. I had all the classic symptoms, and even after the prescribed rest period I was not getting better. I was sleeping 18 hours a day, falling asleep at school and again later in the afternoon. I had severe headaches that even the pain medicine would not relieve. I had no short-term memory and my parents say I just wasn’t myself. So my parents took me to CHEO. An endocrinologist ordered a CT scan and it detected a tumor in the center of my brain that was pressing against my thyroid, pituitary and hypothalamus Vassilyadi, a CHEO neurosurgeon, installed a pressure; that’s when I started to feel much better. The oncologists told us that Germ cell tumors in the brain are very rare but the good news is that they usually respond well to radiation; although some do need a mix of radiation, chemotherapy and surgery. In my case, we quickly started with chemotherapy. Had it not been for my parents’ persistence to push for physicians to investigate further because they knew something was wrong with me, had it not been for the concussion itself and for the team of CHEO neurologists, endocrinologists and oncologists who care for me, my story could have had a sad ending. But now, there’s hope. Chemotherapy is not fun - it actually makes me very sick. I lost my hair and I look very different because of the cortisone, but it is helping me get better. It is shrinking the size of my tumor, and that is great news! Once the last cycle of chemotherapy reduce the tumor even more and hopefully make it go away forever. I hope we’re done by the end of the summer so I can start my hockey season and go back to school. Mom and dad have already found special hockey equipment that will protect my port (where the doctors inject the medications). I can’t wait to get back to my real life. Until then, I will take my medicine, continue chemo and rest so It’s funny because I’ve always wanted to become a doctor when I grow up. Now, as mom says, I’m getting an insider’s view and that will help make me be a great doctor someday. I also want to keep writing, so maybe I’ll become a doctor-writer. But one thing is certain: my stories will always have happy endings. Just like this one will. Retired educator gives back following cancer treatment at TOH By Tracey Tong cancer appeared in a Barrhaven classroom in 2008 when he developed a sudden and unrelenting pain in his back. “I thought I had twisted it,” he recalled, “It was so painful I had to leave class.” He visited his family doctor and tests revealed that “It was a shock,” he said. By that time, the cancer had already spread to his lymph nodes and doctors thought it might be too advanced for treatment. He was admitted to The Ottawa Hospital chemotherapy sessions in March 2008. It was an amazing experience in that way. The support of our friends and neighbours was absolutely phenomenal.” Now recovered, the 76-year-old father and grandfather has been looking for ways to give back – not just for himself, but because cancer has hit his family hard. His father is a prostate cancer survivor, and years ago, his brother, Carl, succumbed to rectal cancer at age 30. Once a week he volunteers at The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre as a volunteer trainer, and last year, be began an EMC newspaper route, donating all of his earnings Hospital Research Institute. He has also signed up to fundraise for The Ottawa Hospital. “When you have cancer, you need to remain cancer can’t spend their lives concentrating on the disease. With my paper route and volunteering, my mind is not on the cancer, it’s on making it better.” R0012122736
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