Come play golf and lend a hand in Making Life Better for Children with Cancer in VA

Can I count on your to help me help kids like Mackenzie this year by bidding to play on my GOLF team or making a donation?  Email Victoria Levi to place your bid or go to www.askccf.org and make a donation today! You can also make plans to spend SATURDAY EVENING with Chef Mike Church at the 3rd Annual ASK Foundation Seafood Feast for a $100 donation. Please RSVP, here.

Mandeville, LA – Friends, I am still recruiting golfers to be on my team at the 3rd Annual ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation Golf Classic, on September 25, 2015 in Fredericksburg VA.  Last year we helped raise almost $15,000 for this wonderful charity that financially assists families who have children suffering cancer in Northern Virginia.  Bidding is still open so don’t delay!

MEET MACKENZIE LEVI – ASK FOUNDATION GRANT RECIPIENT – & ONE OF THE MANY REASONS TO SUPPORT OUR 2015 GOLF CLASSIC AND SEAFOOD SOIREE

You’ve heard her mom, Victoria Levi, on my radio show talking about her daughter Mackenzie’s journey with pediatric brain cancer and how ASK helped them through her treatment and is still helping them today.   So I wanted to share this video with you so you could see the impact you make on a child’s life when you support the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.  You’re helping kids like Mackenzie and her sister Grace and their family get through some of the worst times in their life.

In Sept 2006 Mackenzie was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a form of brain cancer.  Her care was put in the hands of the doctors at the ASK Hematology-Oncology Clinic at VCU.   Mackenzie didn’t know she was sick, didn’t know she shouldn’t have energy and want to play.  She was a frequently found walking the halls, stethoscope in hand, acting like a little doctor on call.    She made friends with everyone in the clinic and at the hospital and turned it into a huge playground.  ASK was there for Mackenzie and her mom during the long days at clinic; providing a child friendly space, DVD players, movies, books and games in each exam room, a ChildLife Specialist to come in and help pass the time, snacks and drinks and even volunteers to go run and grab lunch for them when they couldn’t leave the clinic.  They helped connect them to other families who had gone through it and could be there to lean on.  They became their family and home away from home.

Mackenzie turned 10 this past Christmas.  It’s been nine years since her diagnosis.  Her mom said “we never realized before her diagnosis that September was Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and now that month is just filled with memories of those early days of her cancer journey: of being introduced to the team at VCU that would save her; of watching our baby undergo pokes and prods and scans and hospital stays; of her being tethered to an IV pole for hours and days at a time and finding ways to play around it; of wondering how we were going to get through it all and then watching her lead the way  The doctors in the ASK clinic called Mackenzie an anomaly — we just call her SuperGirl”.

Can I count on your to help me help kids like Mackenzie this year by bidding to play on my team or making a donation?  Email Victoria Levi to place your bid or go to www.askccf.org and make a donation today! You can also make plans to spend SATURDAY EVENING with Chef Mike Church at the 3rd Annual ASK Foundation Seafood Feast for a $100 donation. Please RSVP, here.

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