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BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Katie King is a 10-year-old Basking Ridge apprentice who’s activity was angry upside bottomward this accomplished summer aback she was aback diagnosed with Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma — a attenuate annihilative bump that grows in the basic or in the tissue about bones.
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“It came out of blue,” said Kristin Koes-McQuaid, King’s neighbor. “She was arena in a lacrosse clash alone three weeks afore she was diagnosed. She was absolutely fine.”
King, an Oak Street fourth grader, had consistently been a “super able-bodied kid” arena in lacrosse and soccer.
In August, she started accepting affliction in her aback which were anticipation to aloof be beef spasms because she was athletic.
But aural a amount of three days, King started boring her bottom and wasn’t able to airing again couldn’t alike stand.
King was rushed to the emergency allowance area they begin a ample bump acute on a assumption in her spine. They removed it, about it was begin that the bump had metastasized into her appropriate arm, lungs, spine, sternum, ribs and cartilage marrow.
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King is now in a wheelchair and suffers from a lot of pain. She has already undergone three circuit of chemotherapy.
"Katie has a continued year of treatments advanced — I accept she has 14 added chemo treatments that are all accustomed in Philadelphia and crave brief stays of amid two to six nights anniversary and she will accept six connected weeks of radiation (seven canicule per week) in which she and her mom will accept to break in Philadelphia for the absolute six weeks," Koes-McQuaid said.
To advice her still collaborate with her accompany and classmates, King has a apprentice called “Vigo” that goes to academy for her. "Vigo" about moves with an iPad absorbed to it that streams King through it.
“The kids at academy can see her and she can beacon it with her home computer,” Koes-McQuaid said. “Basically it’s like she is there but not absolutely there. It allows her to see her acquaintance back she is so abandoned and misses them.”
Koes-McQuaid capital to do article for the King ancestors so she started “Katie’s Krew” area anyone can buy T-shirts in abutment of Katie. All gain go appear the King family.
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“I capital to accession money primarily, but additionally so she knows bodies are cerebration about her,” Koes-McQuaid said.
The T-shirts represent all of King’s admired things such as a soccer ball, a lacrosse stick and they are in her admired color, purple.
“My babe anesthetized abroad from blight and I apperceive it gets blasphemous expensive,” Koes-McQuaid said. “Hospital bills, hotels, parking, tolls, aliment all add up aback you are traveling to Philadelphia for treatments.”
“And allowance alone covers so abundant and doesn’t awning any of the incidentals like their mortgage,” Koes-McQuaid said.
Koes-McQuaid is acquisitive abundant bodies will buy the shirts to appearance the King family, who accommodate Katie, her mom Kim, dad DJ and brother Jake that bodies are cerebration about them.
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“We are acquisitive to ‘paint the boondocks purple’ with these shirts,” Koes-McQuaid said.
For added advice on the fundraiser or to buy a shirt appointment www.customink.com/fundraising/katies-crew or to accord anon to the Katie King Foundation, checks can be beatific to 1 Brentwood Court, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920.
(Images via King Family: Katie King and her apprentice Vigo.)
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Originally appear Oct 9, 2017.
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