Foundation helps family of Seeliger student with brain cancer at Saturday lemonade stand
A lemonade stand continues until around 1 p.m. today, with to help a Carson City boy recovering from brain cancer.
Anthony Cox Jr., a 9-year-old Seeliger Elementary student, was at the stand to greet friends, neighbors and passersby by at the Boys and Girls Club in Carson City.
The event is part of the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, which is sponsoring him as he recovers from cancer. His Mom, Athena, said he's finished up his sixth round of chemotherapy and will go back soon for an MRI, but appears to be doing really well.
The Cox family is fighting childhood cancer for all kids by holding the lemonade stand today, Saturday, June 13 during Alex's Lemonade Days, a national effort to help families who have children with cancer. The Boys and Girls Club of Western Nevada is located at 1870 Russell Way in Carson City.
The stand features lemonade and assorted cookies and cupcakes. Everyone is invited to stop by, leave whatever donation they can, and have a cupcake and lemonade with Anothony. All proceeds go towards Alex's Lemonade Foundation for childhood cancer research.
Anthony began experiencing headaches during the summer of 2014. The family took him to the optometrist to get checked for glasses which showed swelling behind the nerves of his eyes. they were sent to the hospital for an MRI, which revealed a big mass on his brain.
That night we were Anothony was Medflighted more than 200 miles away to Children's Hospital Oakland. Anthony had a 16 hour surgery to remove the tumor from his brain. The family learned the following week from the pathologist that the tumor is a choroid plexus carcinoma, which is cancerous and has a 100 percent chance of growing again, with the chance of being in-operable.
He has been given chemo and radiation treatment to hopefully get rid of the tumor and any other cancer cells forever.