i remember this family. we love you eric james barron. we miss you, buddy. look at this. this is the celebrity jeopardy check for $50,000 that you won for friends of karen. and i so, yes, i once played jeopardy on behalf of friends of karen, and i was nervous. so beforehand i wrote judy a note thinking she would say don t worry, just do the best you can. it will be okay. but she said quit whining. think about all the remarkable kids that will benefit from the jeopardy. think about the horrible treatment they go through every day and the strength they have to endure it. being on jeopardy will be a piece of cake compared to that. i can t tell you how grateful we are for being so smart and for playing. i was thrilled. i was thrilled that it worked out. he s the wier of $43,900. how d i do? like a backpack. friends of karen isn t just money and medicine. there s sibling services as
thinking about it. that s t num one thing families always y, we never thought this was going happen to us. and nobody does, you re not prepared financially for it or emotionally for it and that s where friends of karen can come in. it s always hard as she s getting treatment, right? sara cokely helps families face the unfaceable. she is one of a dozen social workers at friends of karen, an organization which supports the families of critically ill children. how many families are you working with right now? i have a caseload of about 40. yeah. 4-0? 4-0. had is the process. she started losing her hair. this is her twin sister zoey. take the case of 14-year-old and her family. their world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with sar coma in her leg. what s it like to hear that your child has cancer? it s i m sorry.
no one s prepared to have a critically ill child. i mean, i think people avoid thinking about it. yeah, that s the number one thing families always say, we never thought this was going happen to us. and nobody does. you re not prepared financially for it or emionally for it, and that s where friends of karen can come in. it s always hard as she s getting treatment, right? sara cokely helps families face the unfaceable. she is one of a dozen social workers at friends of karen, an organization which supports the families of critically ill children. how many families are you working with right now? i have a caseload of about 40. yeah. 4-0? 4-0. this is the process. she started losing her hair. this is her twin sister zoe. take the case of 14-year-old zaria giddy and her family. their world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with
backpack at a time. still ahead, john berman introduces to you his champion for change, a group that john was able to help by knowing the right question to an answer. this is the celebrity jeopardy check for $50,000 that you won for friends of karen. but yes is here. you re saying the new app will go live monday? yeah. with help from hpe, we can finally work the way we want to. with the right mix of hybrid it, everything computes. but when we brought our daughter home, that was it. now i have nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it s the best thing that ever happened to me. every great why needs a great how. [vo] what made secretariat the grwho ever lived?e
these are the things that keep a family afloat when theirhild is sick. do you ever get to the bottom of the pile? there s always a new pile. this really is a house, isn it? it is a house. judith is executive director of friends of karen. we can t prevent the pain, but we can certainly lessen that pain for a family. there s not a person at friends of karen that doesn t feel the mission in their heart and work their hardest because they really care about the kids and their families. what are the darkest moments? well, we all get an e-mail when a child dies. while most, maybe 80% of children are cured, it s always one is too many. friends of karen is named after the first child helped nearly 40 years ago. it s based out of a 150-year-old house, a genuine home for the organization. i need 15 of these, please. home to the volunteers, a home to the 15,000 children they have helped, a home for so many memories.