After Cancer Took Play Away Little Girl Gets it Back – NBC 7 San Diego

Amelie was diagnosed along with cancer last summer and Saturday she was surprised along with a spine lawn 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 observe exactly how complete of life she is you wouldn’t recognize 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 however left the remainder of it as a result of its location.

“She’s our point man. She’s the one in fact top us, which could be contradictory in a lot of people’s minds,” Amelie’s dad Ben told NBC 7. “She’s showing us the method and we’re merely type of adapting.”

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

“The family has actually a great deal of stuff to go through,” Wienerschnitzel employee Kim Zupfer said. “Just what we’re carrying out is zero compared to Just 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 Tough Eric Newman said of kids adore Amelie. “That’s Just what receives us up in the morning at the foundation and Just what we visit bed believing about.”

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

“As soon as I pray now I point out thank you for yesterday, thank you for today, and thank you for tomorrow,” her father said. “Despite what. merely to preserve myself aware that what’s essential is ideal now.”

Amelie right away began to play in her house, swing on the swing and slide down the slide. Her parents have actually another requirement to commemorate – doctors can easily no much longer locate Amelie’s tumor.

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