Scrapbooking Article in local Paper
Cancer victim reaches out to other children
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RCMP members Rick Hawkins, left, and Rod Carleton with Brody Chapman at the Stollery Childrenâ??s Hospital in Edmonton: a photo for his scrapbook.
Nov 13 2007
By SUSAN ZIELINSKI
Advocate staff
Brody Chapman has another photo to add to his scrapbook.
The 11-year-old leukemia patient from Eckville was at Edmonton’s Stollery Children’s Hospital recently when RCMP officers, dressed in red serge, stopped by to visit patients.
Brody started scrapbooking when his aunt gave him a camera and scrapbook kit after he was diagnosed in April.
“He’s had a lot of fun with it,” said his mother Carmen Chapman.
Other young patients who saw him putting together his scrapbook thought it was cool, too, she said.
Now Brody is raising money for his project Scrapping for Cancer to give every child diagnosed with cancer a free scrapbook kit.
About one in 300 people under age 20 are diagnosed each year with cancer in Canada, so Brody wants to raise $12,000 a year.
“He is determined to help every child with cancer.”
Brody, who also has severe epilepsy and attends Parkland School in Red Deer, would eventually like the program to go international. “He wants to help all kids everywhere. He sees no limit,” Chapman said.
Her son always wants to reach out to help people, children or adults, in spite of his own pain, she said.
When Brody saw a woman being consoled by a nurse in a hallway at the children’s hospital, he couldn’t pass by without trying to help, his mother said.
“He had to stop and give her a hug and kiss. He doesn’t like to see anyone hurt.
“There’s just a magic inside them.”
He’s undergoing an aggressive three-year chemotherapy program, getting injections three times per week. Next month, it will increase to four treatments per week, plus oral chemotherapy at home.
Brody and his mother just started work on the Scrapping for Cancer campaign and are visiting businesses in Central Alberta and Edmonton to ask for donations.
He has raised about $130. But it hasn’t been easy, she said.
“It’s taking a toll on him. It’s just so hard on his body.”
The Chapmans are looking for a major sponsor. Each kit costs about $55 and includes a camera, a scrapbook album, paper and tools, and a carrying case. Her son would like to see kits given to children at Alberta hospitals before Christmas.
Kids for Cancer Society is working with the Chapmans to deliver the kits when children with cancer are admitted to hospital.
Businesses or individuals who want to donate can send cheques to The Kids With Cancer Society, re. Scrapping for Cancer, Suite 307-8215-112 St., Edmonton, T6G 2C8.
For more information, go to www.freewebs.com/scrapingwithcancer
This was in the Red Deer Advocate Paper
I will also add that Eckville is my husbands home town, and a place where I lived for many years.
Photo submitted
RCMP members Rick Hawkins, left, and Rod Carleton with Brody Chapman at the Stollery Childrenâ??s Hospital in Edmonton: a photo for his scrapbook.
Nov 13 2007
By SUSAN ZIELINSKI
Advocate staff
Brody Chapman has another photo to add to his scrapbook.
The 11-year-old leukemia patient from Eckville was at Edmonton’s Stollery Children’s Hospital recently when RCMP officers, dressed in red serge, stopped by to visit patients.
Brody started scrapbooking when his aunt gave him a camera and scrapbook kit after he was diagnosed in April.
“He’s had a lot of fun with it,” said his mother Carmen Chapman.
Other young patients who saw him putting together his scrapbook thought it was cool, too, she said.
Now Brody is raising money for his project Scrapping for Cancer to give every child diagnosed with cancer a free scrapbook kit.
About one in 300 people under age 20 are diagnosed each year with cancer in Canada, so Brody wants to raise $12,000 a year.
“He is determined to help every child with cancer.”
Brody, who also has severe epilepsy and attends Parkland School in Red Deer, would eventually like the program to go international. “He wants to help all kids everywhere. He sees no limit,” Chapman said.
Her son always wants to reach out to help people, children or adults, in spite of his own pain, she said.
When Brody saw a woman being consoled by a nurse in a hallway at the children’s hospital, he couldn’t pass by without trying to help, his mother said.
“He had to stop and give her a hug and kiss. He doesn’t like to see anyone hurt.
“There’s just a magic inside them.”
He’s undergoing an aggressive three-year chemotherapy program, getting injections three times per week. Next month, it will increase to four treatments per week, plus oral chemotherapy at home.
Brody and his mother just started work on the Scrapping for Cancer campaign and are visiting businesses in Central Alberta and Edmonton to ask for donations.
He has raised about $130. But it hasn’t been easy, she said.
“It’s taking a toll on him. It’s just so hard on his body.”
The Chapmans are looking for a major sponsor. Each kit costs about $55 and includes a camera, a scrapbook album, paper and tools, and a carrying case. Her son would like to see kits given to children at Alberta hospitals before Christmas.
Kids for Cancer Society is working with the Chapmans to deliver the kits when children with cancer are admitted to hospital.
Businesses or individuals who want to donate can send cheques to The Kids With Cancer Society, re. Scrapping for Cancer, Suite 307-8215-112 St., Edmonton, T6G 2C8.
For more information, go to www.freewebs.com/scrapingwithcancer
This was in the Red Deer Advocate Paper
I will also add that Eckville is my husbands home town, and a place where I lived for many years.
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