{"id":323160,"date":"2023-04-20T08:10:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T15:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/?p=323160"},"modified":"2023-04-18T20:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T03:22:42","slug":"point-loma-residents-fundraising-drive-benefits-rady-childrens-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/point-loma-residents-fundraising-drive-benefits-rady-childrens-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Point Loma resident’s fundraising drive benefits Rady Children\u2019s Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Point Loman has started a fundraising drive benefiting critical cancer support programs at the Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Rady Children\u2019s Hospital-San Diego.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been a member of the La Playa Unit of the Rady’s Children’s Hospital Auxiliary for one year,\u201d said Mandy Havlik noting, \u201cWe help raise money to continue funding cancer support programs that are specifically designed to help very young patients and their families. We are always looking for new members. I guarantee you will have fun, make new friends, and be inspired by the impact we make on families and their loved ones who are impacted by cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Celebration of Champions, the La Playa Auxiliary Unit of Rady’s signature event, celebrates and honors children who received services through the Peckham Center at Rady’s. Each year, Rady Children\u2019s offers over 1,400 families a support system funded largely by\u00a0Celebration of Champions. Parent liaisons, who have experience with their own child\u2019s diagnosis, support parents through a shared experience. Child Life specialists explain procedures to patients, making sure they understand what to expect in a calm and comforting way. These programs and others are only made possible through\u00a0Celebration of Champions.<\/p>\n

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Point Loma resident Carter Santos ringing the bell signifying he is done with treatment with Dr. Kuo his oncologist at Rady Children\u2019s Hospital. COURTESY PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another Point Loman, Nicole Santos, her family, and her son Carter, are just a few of the many who Rady has helped battle childhood cancer and come out successfully on the other end.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so grateful for the amazing doctors, nurses, and staff who are truly the heartbeat of Rady\u2019s,\u201d said Santos, noting her son, Carter, was diagnosed with BCell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in December 2018 at age 5. \u201cAs you can imagine this turned our world upside down. Immediately we were flooded with fear and the question of will he survive, and what does the journey ahead look like?\u201d<\/p>\n

After being diagnosed with blood cancer, Carter was admitted to Rady\u2019s and started treatment. The Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders became the Santos family\u2019s home for the next month beginning their journey into the world of childhood cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cCarter was in treatment for 1,210 days and in the hospital for 100 days,\u201d said his mother who added, \u201cHe had 17 blood transfusions, over 1,000 doses of chemotherapy and he was put under anesthesia 36 times. During that 3 \u00bd-year period, his strength and spirit were nothing short of heroic and inspiring. We draw from him to show us that we are capable of so much more than we realize.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, as Nicole Santos pointed out, childhood cancer impacts not just the person afflicted, but everyone else in the family. Nonetheless, she added, there were some positives to be taken from the experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good is the (hospital) community was incredibly supportive and that was amazing for our whole family, not just Carter,\u201d she said. \u201cIt restores your faith in humanity to know that there are a lot of people out there who care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of their oncologist Dr. Kuo, who treated Carter, Nicole noted: \u201cHe was incredible, reassuring us that Rady\u2019s is on the same protocol or treatment plan as St Jude\u2019s. He had a panel of doctors across the country consulting him on Carter\u2019s case, reassuring us they would do everything they could.\u00a0This is just one example of the caliber of care provided by the medical team at the Peckham center.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carter, now age 10, made it through the experience, and mom Nicole said there was a \u201clot of relief and a lot to celebrate\u201d at the end of his treatment. Though there is no guarantee Carter will never relapse, Nicole said, \u201cWe hold onto that celebration of his recovery, and continue to hope that this is not a journey he will ever have to walk again. We feel incredibly fortunate to have Rady here to be able to treat our children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Havlik encourages people, if they are interested in getting involved, to become a member of the Rady’s Children’s Hospital Auxiliary, or make a donation to help fund programs that support families impacted by cancer. The link to donate is at radyfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RADY CHILDREN\u2019S HOSPITAL<\/p>\n

A nonprofit, 511-bed pediatric-care facility dedicated to excellence in care, research, and teaching, Rady is the only hospital in San Diego dedicated exclusively to pediatric health care and the region\u2019s only designated pediatric trauma center. Affiliated with the\u00a0University of California, San Diego School of Medicine<\/a>, Rady\u2019s is also the region\u2019s teaching hospital for the next generation of pediatric physicians.<\/p>\n

The institution is also a major pediatric clinical research center, working in collaboration with world-renowned institutions, including UC San Diego and St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital. Rady\u2019s mission is to restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research, and advocacy. It is also to be a nationally and internationally recognized leader for excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy.<\/p>\n

In October 2010, Rady opened its\u00a0Acute Care Pavilion<\/a>, making it the largest children\u2019s hospital in California based on admissions. The facility helps to ensure that no child will ever be turned away because beds are filled. Parents and children come to Rady nationwide to benefit from the facility\u2019s nationally renowned physicians, and because of its focus on research, teaching and innovation in helping patients receive state-of-the-art care. Through Rady\u2019s\u00a0Center for Healthier Communities<\/a>\u00a0y el\u00a0Chadwick Center for Children and Families<\/a>, families are offered the promise of a healthier future.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Point Loman has started a fundraising drive benefiting critical cancer support programs at the Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Rady Children\u2019s Hospital-San Diego. \u201cI have been a member of the La Playa Unit of the Rady’s Children’s Hospital Auxiliary for one year,\u201d said Mandy Havlik noting, \u201cWe help raise money to […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":840,"featured_media":323163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"A Point Loman has started a fundraising drive benefiting critical cancer support programs at the Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Rady Children\u2019s Hospital-San Diego.","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"3","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15465,15494],"tags":[15819,15820,15821,12546,14493],"class_list":["post-323160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peninsula-beacon-top-stories","category-sdnews-news","tag-celebration-of-champions","tag-la-playa-unit","tag-peckham-center-for-cancer-and-blood-disorders","tag-point-loma","tag-rady-childrens-hospital-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323164,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323160\/revisions\/323164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}