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Big Christmas Wish - Addison Wosick · Podcast - Big 98.7

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  You know, all year we like to be able to give back with our
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  big ninety eight point seven Christmas wish, but especially this time of year,
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  Amanda, we like to ramp it up because it's just the season of giving
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  for sure. Yes, And we have a very special girl we're about to
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  speak to. Her name is Addison and she's only ten years old, fifth
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  grade. In a year ago, she found out some very difficult news and
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  she's been battling ever since. So we have her mom, Lindsay, on
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  the phone right now. Good morning, Lindsay, how are you hello?
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  So we want to chat with you and of course your daughter Addison, who
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  we're going to talk to here in a second. But can you tell us
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  sort of what your family's gone through over this last year? So I'm Christmas
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  Eve. Last year, Addison developed a really bad headache and we couldn't control
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  it with ivy profin or tylenol, so we decided to bring her in to
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  the emergency room at Stanford Hospital in Bargol. They thought, you know what,
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  something is off, so they did a scan on Addison and that's when
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  our life truly just changed forever. They found a golf fall sized mass in
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  her Sarahbellum and that's just when our journey in this new life began. Oh
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  my gosh, So you're coming up on almost a year of this just horrific
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  news that you receive and what has gone on over this past year. Yeah.
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  So we then got admitted that evening on Christmas Eve at Samford Children's Hospital
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  and Firego, that's when you found out it was on Christmas Eve. It
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  was that evening. Yet. Oh so that's good. I mean, obviously
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  there's no good day for it, but for Addison, who is obviously as
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  a kid, just that just had to be the way we're siming for it.
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  Yes, it was definitely challenging in so many ways. So then that
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  evening we got admitted to Stamford Children's Hospital and on December twenty sixth she had
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  brain surgery to remove the math and so that was, you know, a
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  very challenging day, just so waiting and hoping and praying. But the surgery
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  went well, and we're so thankful for the expert staff at Samford Children's Hospital
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  and what they did for Addison and our family. This is really cool because
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  Lindsay, you have Addison next to you, who I'm told really wanted to
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  be able to share her story and what she's been going through and how she's
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  been just battling over this last year. So, good morning, Addison.
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  How are you? I'm doing good? Oh how old are you? Adison?
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  I'm ten? Wow? Ten years now? Addison? Have you ever
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  talked on the radio before? No, I haven't. Thank you so much
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  for having your first time be with us. We're honored to be able to
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  talk to you. Could you just kind of tell us how it's been going.
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  I think it's been doing good. I've been to a lot of different
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  places, like I've been to Stamford, I've been to Mayo. That's a
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  lot of going for a little girl. Who what grade are you in?
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  I'm What are some of your favorite things to do? I like to figure
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  skate skate that's a fun one. I tried to get on skates recently and
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  it's just you know, if you guys make it look so easy. I
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  always follow on my butt. So what's your dream? Do you want to
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  be an Olympic figure skater? What do you what do you hope to be?
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  I want to be a nurse. I want to be an college here
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  on Houlagy nurse. That is so amazing, and I'm sure that's probably because
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  the time you've spent around so many nurses. Yes, oh, I'm sure
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  it's become your second home when you're spending so much time with all of these
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  nurses and doctors. Yes. Yeah. After we left Mayo, then we
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  came back and now she's been doing the rest of her chemotherapy treatment at Roger
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  May's Cancer Center and then Stamfreu Children's Hospitals. Addison is continuing on with treatment
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  and we're hopeful maybe at the end of February twenty twenty four, she'll be
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  done with her chemotherapy treatment and then we'll move on to just doing MRIs for
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  the rest of Addison's life and just continuing doctoring and kind of going from there.
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  We can only imagine Mom, how hard this has been financially on you
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  guys, But ultimately, you know, as a parent, you do whatever
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  you can for your kids. I keep thinking from the second you told us
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  that last Christmas Eve, your life changed, and you're coming up on a
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  year, and we just want to make sure that this Christmas is extra special
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  for you guys. Through donations throughout the year, we would like to give
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  you guys a gift of one thousand dollars. My goodness, thank you,
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  thank you so much. Our family is so grateful. You know, a
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  cancer diagnosis is just very financially overwhelming and hard for a family. But throughout
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  this whole journey, we've just felt so supportive by family, friends, co
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  workers, the community. I just feel people have wrapped their arms around us.
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  We just truly have not left our side for this whole past year.
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  And Addison, have you been feeling all that joy as well? Yes,
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  you're such a warrior. You can just hear it in your voice, the
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  joy you're bringing to the world and just keep fighting. Okay girl, thank
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  you, yes, thank you. You're such a strong girl. Do you
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  have anything you want to say to everybody listening to you and your story?
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  Thank you for supporting our family.