think of the positive that has come out of what i ve been through, and the kids always have a ton of fun. ring this bell three times well. it s tolled to clearly say, my treatment s done, this course is run, and i am on my way. [ bell ringing ] on february 7th of 2019, i was declared cured, which means that the cancer hadn t come back within those five scary years. you get a certificate. so it was a big celebration, and it was a lot of fun. the day grace rang her bell marked the end of a very long and scary journey. i saw the whole wave of emotions that this child had experienced. it was life-changing. it was like she was welcoming a a new life. one of the most rewarding parts of we can serve is the impact it makes on all skills,
these teen football players in idaho found out only one person rsvped to his birthday party. so they surprised him. showing up at a crucial time is what this 19 year-old crane operator did in northeast china. at the time the smoke and fire were very close. a seven story building went up flames he jumped to action. plucking 14 people out of smoke filled windows. my face was really burning. and saved the lives of a mother and son standing dangerously close to the flames. these teens are giving this 9 year-old a gift of living a fuller life. seizures and heart surgery. and cancer. carson is getting a free motorized chair built by the
were told she wouldn t walk, she wouldn t talk. we were given short life expectancies. so to look at her now as a special olympics athlete, winning gold medals, being an ambassador for a triathlon let s here it for freya. i don t know what freya s life would be like if she hasn t found stingrays. it was stingrays that brought freya back to life. fantastic. double high five. i feel privileged to have been part of that and to be able to see her change into this beautiful young woman that she now is. come on, freya! i think that i will always work towards inclusion. i want my swimmers to take away from stingrays that they are valuable, they are incredible young people that can make a
time in her bedroom. immediately alarm bells start to ring, and you think, we really, really need to find something for freya to become part of life. but there s very little out there. can i see some super good swimming? oh, yeah. oh, yeah. there we go. when freya first joined stingrays, she could spraek approximately ten words. that s not because she didn t know how to speak the words. it was because she was too scared because people hadn t taken the time to listen to her. big arms! when she came to stingrays, she s developed that much that she will talk to anyone and everyone. when i see freya arrive at stingrays sorry it made your heart burst. keep going! it s really hard to see someone that you love isolating themselves. so when you have the reverse of that, it really makes it a big
well. i m going to be an astronaut so i can actually discover these planets myself. we bring in these phenomenal volunteer counselors and just having an older buddy to look up to took kind of see how life should be and behaviors that should be modeled. we re with camp happy. just the little things that they get to experience, it takes away some of the pain that they have. the last day of camp is camp carnival. we all make our own games out of cardboard boxes, construction paper. it s simple but it s a lot of fun. we put in a lot of work for it. camp carnival is personal to me because my seventh birthday party was a carnival theme. this whole uncertainty around her health was kind of a cloud around her birthday. i just didn t want the carnival party to ever be a memory of sadness for her. it s a good way to kind of