In the U.S., nearly 5,000 people are injured by what each year?
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The thought of a child battling cancer once is hard enough, but imagine going through it 5 times.
That’s the situation of a Radcliff teen diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. John Hull and his grandmother, Vilmary Cotto have been at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital since the beginning of 2021. And while Hull has secured a bone marrow transplant, the bills, both medical and his grandmother’s, keep coming in.
“We’ve been here already a month,” Cotto, his primary caregiver says, “and we’re scheduled to be here until July. Because of this, I’ve lost my job, I’ve got a lot of bills to pay.”
“But, I mean, I’m not worried about all of that. I just want him to get well.”
The community has rallied around the two, starting a GoFundMe that’s raised nearly $6,000 so far. A link to the fundraiser can be found here.
As the area continues to clean up from the previous winter storm, another is on it’s way, with officials saying it’ll bring more weather that is likely to impact roads once again.
The National Weather Service is scheduled to hold another conference call on the system later today.