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Cancer

Why?

Paul O'Rear -- Monday, November 24, 2008, 7:14 AM (1 Comment)
Categories: Ashley O'Rear, Cancer
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Ashley O'Rear (Age 9)

Ashley O'Rear (Age 9)

I had never prayed as hard in my life as I did the morning of March 16, 1997. It was a Sunday morning, about 6:30, and I was driving from Children’s Medical Center in Dallas back to our house about 35 minutes away. Four hours earlier, Susan and I had been told by a doctor at Children’s that our 9-year-old daughter Ashley had a brain tumor.

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Where Were You?

Paul O'Rear -- Thursday, September 11, 2008, 12:29 PM (No Comments)
Categories: America, Ashley O'Rear, Cancer, Sound Off!
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Country singer Alan Jackson sang a song entitled “Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)?”, referring to that fateful day in 2001 that will forever be remembered simply as “Nine Eleven”.

Do you remember where you were?

I will never forget.

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Childhood Cancer Awareness

Paul O'Rear -- Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 1:16 AM (1 Comment)
Categories: Ashley O'Rear, Cancer, Childhood Cancer Awareness, Children
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Childhood Cancer Awareness Gold Ribbon

Childhood Cancer Awareness Gold Ribbon

September is
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month .

My daughter Ashley died of cancer in November 2001. She was 14 years old. Diagnosed with a brain tumor when she was almost 10, she went through a year-and-a-half of treatments, was cancer-free for three years, and then relapsed in the Fall of 2001. She survived only two-and-a-half months after her relapse.

In the United States in 2007, more than 10,000 children under the age of 15 were diagnosed with cancer. Over 1,500 of them will die from the disease. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in children, exceeded only by accidents. (Source: American Cancer Society )

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