Cancer kind of sucks the childhood out of your kid, says JaNett Hill, whose daughter Elliott, 4, was diagnosed with a kidney cancer known as Wilms tumor that spread to her lungs.
Elliott, who lives in Georgetown, was diagnosed in January 2020 and went through treatments at McLane Children s Hospital in Temple, including removal of her right kidney and part of her lung as well as chemotherapy and radiation. Her final surgery was in October.
Now she will have scans done every three months to look for any signs of the cancer returning. We are blessed we are in this portion of the journey, Hill says.
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When Coulter Browning was 2 years old, you couldn t reach him, says his mother Jill Browning. He just wasn t there. . It was almost like he wasn t human.
He didn t make eye contact; he didn t respond to his name.
Coulter was diagnosed with autism at 18 months old, but Browning says, they noticed differences in him earlier.
Kids with autism need intensive, early therapy intervention including Applied Behavior Analysis, which uses positive reinforcements and repetition to work on communication, social interaction and other skills.
Coulter started doing Applied Behavior Analysis therapy at Action Behavior Centers in Austin 40 hours a week. Browning switched jobs to get better insurance that would cover the treatment.
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Tim Revell is about to run his 16th Austin Marathon and break an even more important mile marker: He will have raised $200,000 for CureDuchenne by running the Austin Marathon.
The national nonprofit funds research for Duchenne, a form of muscular dystrophy. Both of Revell s sons have the disease, which affects only boys.
Like most Austin runners, Revell wasn t sure if this year s race would happen. The race was postponed from its usual February date because of the COVID-19 pandemic and is being run both virtually and in person on April 25. The in-person race will be only a half-marathon or a 5K.