After Cancer Took Play Away Little Girl Gets it Back – NBC Southern California

Amelie was diagnosed along with cancer last summer and Saturday she was surprised along with a spine backyard play set. NBC 7’s Liz Bryant reports. (Published Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016)

Five-year-old Amelie likes to play. As she puts a blanket over her head to play hide-and-seek she giddily screams “I’m hiding! I’m hiding!”

To notice exactly how complete of life she is you wouldn’t understand that last summer Amelie was diagnosed along with pineoblastoma, a mind cancer discovered just in children. Doctors removed 60% of the tumor four days later yet left the remainder of it because of its location.

“She’s our point man. She’s the one in fact top us, which may be contradictory in the majority of people’s minds,” Amelie’s dad Ben told NBC 7. “She’s showing us the means and we’re simply type of adapting.”

Cue Wienerschnitzel and the Roc Strong Foundation for the ‘Play it Forward’ program.

“The family has actually a great deal of stuff to go through,” Wienerschnitzel employee Kim Zupfer said. “Exactly what we’re executing is nil compared to Exactly what they’re going through.”

Kim and others volunteers helped develop a playground in Amelie’s backyard – a playground that was a surprise to her.

“Play is replaced along with doctor’s appointments, along with needles, along with chemo that makes you so sick you can’t stand it,” founder of Roc Strong Eric Newman said of youngsters love Amelie. “That’s Exactly what receives us up in the morning at the foundation and Exactly what we visit bed believing about.”

Amelie got in a limo given to her that took her spine to her home where she discovered the Brand-new play established finish along with a tree house, swing and slide.

“Once I pray now I state thank you for yesterday, thank you for today, and thank you for tomorrow,” her father said. “Regardless of what. simply to sustain myself aware that what’s vital is ideal now.”

Amelie as soon as possible began to play in her house, swing on the swing and slide down the slide. Her parents have actually yet another demand to commemorate – doctors can easily no much longer discover Amelie’s tumor.

Published at 7:30 PM PST on Feb 13, 2016