Love for Lawson pink yard signs have become a fixture around town and part of a communitywide effort to help Lawson s family.
The Christmas tree, made of strings of pink lights attached to an 8-foot pole, has been in the front yard of Kelly and Jose Juarez s southeast Ocala home since Christmas.
The Juarezes, parents of Lawson s mother, Jessica Armstrong, have been caring for Peyton while her parents stayed at the hospital with her sister. At night Peyton would cry and say, Why is my sister so sick? said Kelly Juarez.
Peyton said she wants the tree to remain up and lighted until Lawson is home and feeling better.
“I m in good spirits,” he said.
While at home, Douglas has been working. He’s on light duty and making telephone calls, following up with online reports sent to the police department. He only works when his body cooperates.
A new treatment regimen
Douglas was at the University of Florida Health Shands Cancer Hospital in Gainesville for about a month. In the hospital, Douglas was screened, tested, poked, prodded and monitored from head to toe by doctors and nurses.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a blood cancer that can spread to other parts of the body, such as the liver and spleen.