$10,431 raised for kids
Another record setting campaign!
[Octber 11, 2011]
Thank you for your generosity! STCU members and employees raised a record $10,431 for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals during the 2011 campaign in August and September. Thank you for being a vital link in the chain of support.
Click on the video below to watch a special "thank you."
Hearing Tommy's story can make grownups choke back tears. But there's a happy ending. Tommy woke his parents in the middle of the night. His stomach hurt.
When doctors took a look, they found a tumor bigger than a softball.
"They took us off into a little room and set us down and said we had better prepare for it to be cancer," said Tommy's dad, Garth.
Tommy's response: I'm not scared.
Everyone knew Tommy would lose his hair during chemotherapy, so his father, two of his brothers and many other men in his life got their heads shaved. Several of them got cancer ribbons tattooed on their bald scalps.
"There must have been eight or 10 of us," Garth said.
Tommy wasn't scared when doctors removed the tumor along with half of Tommy's liver, or when he started chemo.
Less than a year later, doctors say Tommy is cured. His thick blond hair has grown back.
You won't find Tommy dwelling on the illness that caused so much pain and left a 10-inch scar. He's busy skateboarding, practicing his knuckleball and camping with his close-knit family of seven.
Often, you'll find him in a tree, up a rope, on a rock. Because, more than anything, Tommy loves to climb.
A lot of people would be scared, so far from the ground.
Not Tommy.
Each year, STCU raises money for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals to help kids like Tommy.
The 2011 campaign ended September 16, raising more than $10,400 for kids. Thank you for donating! Every penny you donate stays in the Inland Northwest to benefit these local organizations:
- Camp Fun in the Sun
- Kootenai Medical Center
- Northwest MedStar Air Ambulance
- Partners with Families and Children
- Providence Holy Family Hospital
- Providence Mt. Carmel Hospital-Colville
- Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital
- Providence St. Joseph's Hospital-Chewelah
- St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute
- Team St. Luke's
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