A 6-year-old girl was diagnosed with a life threatening cancer and despite the hardships, she wished for something uniquely different. Her wish meant that many other children in situations similar to hers’ will get inspiration and encouragement to battle their demons. Watch the wish and her story in this article. </p.
6-year-old Alexis was a regular kid with hopes and dreams like any kid. However, her story takes a different and difficult turn as she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the age of 3 years old. She was once sent home from preschool with what her parents thought was simple fever.
But she had to be admitted to the Seattle Children’s hospital for cancer treatment. Her mother Angela said that she couldn’t believe it at first and when she began responding to the treatment and finally had her last chemotherapy in August last year.
Her family was contacted by the Make-A-Wish foundation Washington and Alaska, after her story was shared with the people from the foundation.
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After three long years, Alexis responded to the treatment and finally defeated the dreaded cancer. She was still on medication, pills and regularly visits her doctor. When she was asked about her wish, she said that she wanted to bring awareness about acute lymphoblastic leukemia amongst people. So she wished to make a cartoon so that other children in pediatric ward dealing with such life threatening diseases can watch it and get inspired to be brave.
So Make A Wish foundation got on touch with a agency named World Famous, based in Seattle and Alexis met up with them to discuss her wish and the story.
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World Famous and Alexis worked together and decided to make a cartoon about Princess Alexis defeating a dragon named Kemia. Kemia was hiding inside in the Marrow Woods and the dragon took her away and locked her away in a castle. In order to escape the castle, Princess Alexis needs to find a magic wand hidden within its basement. The twist is that the wand will take Princess Alexis' beautiful hair and her strength; but will help her defeat Kemia and escape the castle.
Alexis even voiced her character and her mother voiced another character. Make A Wish website says,” Help us make Alexis's wish gain worldwide attention to raise awareness of pediatric cancer by forwarding the link to her video via social media” and please do share the video.