The unseen battle
November is here. I am terrified of going to sleep or waking up. On Nov. 24th, 2014, Joey was airlifted from Cincinnati Children’s to Shands. 5:50pm on Nov. 26th, he took the last breath....
A Wish for A Cure
The art of hope – Origami crane display honors Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
For the entire month of September — Childhood Cancer Awareness Month — 2,000 origami cranes will be on display in the University of Florida Health Shands Children’s Hospital Sebastian Ferrero Atrium. This piece of...
The art of hope – Origami crane display honors Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
For the entire month of September — Childhood Cancer Awareness Month — 2,000 origami cranes will be on display in the University of Florida Health Shands Children’s Hospital Sebastian Ferrero Atrium. This piece of...
oh the places you’ll go
Dear Joey, You don’t know mommy hid things from you in the house. I once bought 12 used sets of Lego Technic from someone and hid them in the closet. I let you play...
Children’s Day
Today is International Children’s Day. I think of those children I met in the last two years, some passed and some are still fighting, newly diagnosed cases are coming up everyday. Globally, there are...
Lucas
Life is getting harder and harder. Even when I’m busy, I feel like an empty shell with a lonely soul wandering around. The hardest part is to watch the loved ones suffer in front...
Alligator newspaper in March 2015
On Saturday, the Joey’s Wings Foundation hosted Joey’s Run, a 5K run and walk in Westside Recreation Center, to honor Joey’s passion and raise research funds for the cancer that ended Joey’s running nearly...
Gainesville Sun in March 2015
Mom forms charity to continue fight against cancer that took her son Joey Xu was still in elementary school and already a little renaissance man, a talented musician, artist, athlete and math champion.He was...
Living cancer: a radio series from WYNC in association with NPR.
The companion radio serials of Ken Burns’ documentary CANCER: THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES will produce two series of in-depth, narrative reports for broadcast nationally on NPR’s news magazine shows. The first series, “Critical...
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