Thursday, December 16, 2010

Facing her world with courage

Samantha Mantyka, young girl in Delta who would probably faint is she met Justin Bieber. The bright-eyed 10-year-old Gibson Elementary student knows Biebers favourite colours (blue and purple), the he has a dog named Sammy (just like her), and his middle name (Drew). And all she wants for Christmas is to meet him. Samantha was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 and she wants to make her daughter’s holiday memories count. When Samantha first found out an aggressive tumor was growing on her brain stem, she underwent round after around of grueling chemotherapy and radiation. The next spring, family and friends celebrated Samantha’s end of chemo. But in November, the doctors told her the terminal cancer had reappeared on her spine. Family friends are holding a fundraiser to help send the family to Disney World.


 Seeing such a cute little girl, I don’t blame the Mother being scared outta her wits seeing her daughter hooked up to tubes or wheeled in for surgery. Samantha is one brave girl seeing what I had read. Having cancer on her brain stem and then in her spine is just too much for a 10 year old little Delta girl. The family friends are doing a great thing to send Samantha’s family to Disney world. If she meets Justin Bieber for her Christmas Present, she would be one lucky girl.


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