Sweet Surprises by Teri
& Johnathon's Rainbow Road
Johnathon earned his wings on May 2, 2009.
Forever 3
View Johnathon's Memorial folder by clicking here
Open the 2009 Coloring Contest Rules and Coloring Pages HERE! The contest will run through September and winners announced on October 6 (Johnathon's birthday).
How Can You Help Raise Awareness? (click here)
This awful disease does not just impact that one child - it impacts all children in the family and the entire extended family. Watching my mom go through breast cancer twice and just losing my only sister to suicide this last March - is nothing compared to the fear and helplessness of watching our child fight this cancer and the fear in his brothers eyes when he sees Johnathon not feeling very well. I'm sorry to say that I was oblivious to childhood cancer before October of this year - I knew it happened, just not how often it happens.
Today,
9 families across America will learn their child has a brain or spinal cord tumor
A mother will grieve that her instincts about her child’s health were right.
A father will allow himself to cry, but only alone in the shower.
3 families across America will mourn the loss of their child to a brain or spinal cord tumor
Friends, family and community will try to make sense of an untimely death and the unfulfilled promise of a life.
6 families across America will transition to survivorship.
A mother will be too exhausted from providing constant care to her child to simply write checks to pay bills.
A father will again adapt his day, family and life to a new definition of normal, unlike
any he had previously envisioned.
A survivor on the brink of adulthood will wonder if he’ll ever date, marry or have a family.
* Childhood Brain Cancer Foundation
Childhood brain tumors are the second most frequent malignancy of childhood and the most common form of solid tumor. Tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) comprise 22% of all malignancies occurring among children up to 14 years of age and 10% of tumors occurring among 15-19-year-olds. Although rapid progress has been made in the treatment of some forms of childhood cancer, such as acute lymphatic leukemia, the outcome for children with primary CNS tumors has remained poor and for most tumors has not changed over the past decade. Brain tumors are now the leading cause of death from childhood cancer, accounting for 24% of cancer-related deaths in 1997 among persons up to 19 years of age. In addition, due to either the effects of the tumor or the treatment required to control it, survivors of childhood brain tumors often have severe neurologic, neurocognitive, and psychosocial sequelae.
*National Institue of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
God Sent to Me an Angel
Written by Paul Dammann
God sent to me an angel,
it had a broken wing.
I bent my head and wondered
"How could God do such a thing?"
When I asked the Father
why He sent this child to me,
the answer was forthcoming,
He said "Listen and you'll see."
"My children are all precious,
and none is like the rest.
Each one to me is special,
and the least is as the best.
I send each one from Heaven
and I place it in the care
of those who know my mercy,
those with love to spare.
Sometimes I take them back again.
Sometimes I let them stay.
No matter what may happen
I am never far away.
So if you find an angel
and you don't know what to do,
remember, I am with you,
love is all I ask of you."
Craft Supplies: Crayons, Markers, Paints, Cardstock, Construction Paper, Child Safe Scissors, rulers, virtually anything that can be used to make crafts (I will package supplies to make specific crafts along with packages for them to make something using their imagination).
Scrapbooking Supplies
Cardmaking supplies and kits
Beading items
Books and Journals for children ages 6mo - 18 years
Hats (almost all of our children will be hair challenged for periods of time)
Soaps, Lotions, toothbrushes, travel tissues.
Small games that can be played with two people.
Cards
Stationary Supplies and Stamps.
Paper supplies for printing coloring pages, activity sheets, and customized stationary for the children and siblings to have.
This is just a start...I want the items to be things that can be used to all some happy family times...or just quiet times when they're needed.
Please take the time to fill out the Donation Form.
Supply Donations can be sent to:
Johnathon's Rainbow Road Project
5275 Pork Chop Hill
Fort Worth, TX 76126
I'd prefer supply donations but if you'd prefer to make a monetary donation to be used for purchasing what is needed for the care packages that can be done via Revolutionary Money Exchange to teri@sweetsurprisesbyteri.com. That account has been created for that purpose only.
