Beltz Family

I wanted to share our story and send along our gratitude - Xander was diagnosed @ 19 months with AML (Acute Myeloid Leukemia).  Since then our world has been turned upside down.  He's had 2 rounds of chemo since diagnosis, and has 4 more to go.  We have heen staying at the RMH during treatments, which is such a blessing!  We are so grateful to the Four Diamonds Fund, which has been so generous!  Until all this happened, we didn't even know it existed.  When I saw the students standing in the cold near the Childrens' Hospital in Hershey, with their cans that said "Help kids with cancer", I cried!!!  It really hit me - my son has cancer, and these kids care so much about my son that they spend time in the freezing cold to collect donations to help him and kids just like him.  My husband and daughter (our well child) dropped all the spare change we had into the can and shook the hands of those students who care so much.  I can't express the deep appreciation I feel to you and your fellow students who make it your goal every single year to help families like mine. 

                                          
 
I find it ironic that YOU say WE are the inspiration....it really is 2 way.  It is the good in all of you that inspires families like us to take our situation, turn it around and give back to others that are in the same place we are.  I'm not sure if I'm allowed to reference "GOD" but I'm gonna anyway.  God uses people to continue his good work - and I truly believe that the THON famililes in conjunction with the students who dedicate so much time to helping them, really are miracles from God. 
 
God Bless you all, angels on earth!  We, the Beltz family, wish you the most wonderful Christmas season ever.  Again, we look forward to meeting all of you at THON!

  THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO!

With much gratitude and respect,
 
Dava Beltz (mother of Xander, fighting childhood cancer right along with him)