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Karina Bland

Arizona
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Lead writer at ALSAC/@StJude. www.stjude.org/inspire | Before: Columnist, The Arizona Republic, @azcentral | bit of a smart mouth
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An 8-year-old boy drew a superhero named Fever Fighter during cancer treatment. Years later, it’s helping save lives.

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By Karina Bland
| St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
A month into Ethan Washburn’s treatment at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, his second-grade teacher assigned a science project. His twin brother, Cooper, wanted to explore conductivity using batteries and magnets. Ethan decided he’d do his project about his illness. He was 7 in 2010 when he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, the most common childhood cancer.
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The hope they gave helped save their daughter

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By Karina Bland
| St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Not long after Madelyn was born in 2018, her dad heard a story on the radio about children with cancer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®. Matt was so moved that he signed up to be a monthly donor — a Partner in Hope — under Madelyn’s name. “No family should have to go through that,” he thought. Matt and his wife Brittany did the same when their younger daughter, Addison, was born. They never imagined they’d one day need that hope themselves.
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With airport runs and ravioli dinners, a mom helped build a hospital — and a family legacy

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By Karina Bland
| St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
When Lynn Gibson was a kid, she’d come home from school to find strangers in the living room of her Memphis home, a sick child tucked in on the couch. She’d glare at her mom and flounce to her bedroom. “I was so ugly when she brought home kids,” Lynn recalled. She was 10 in 1958 when her mom, Katherine Zanone, joined the Ladies of St. Jude, a group of women who volunteered to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®.
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