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Cam Jam Bantam Lacrosse Jamboree Program.

 

 

The town of Burlington, Connecticut has a youth lacrosse program for boys and girls in grades three through eight.  This program was started over seven years ago and has grown from just a handful of children to a program that today has bantam, junior and senior programs for both boys and girls.  This year, we have 80 boys and 65 girls on our teams.

 

Unfortunately, we started our season with the news that one of our players, Cam Greenwood, is battling cancer. He is a seventh grader in Burlington and has been a member of our lacrosse program since bantams.

 

Cam is an outstanding lacrosse player and, much more importantly, just a super all around kid. As he was getting ready for his first year at seniors, he was diagnosed with Ewings Sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer that usually affects kids between 11 and 19.

 

“KICKIN’ IT TOGETHER”

To know Har-Bur Middle School 7^th grader Cameron Greenwood, one would say this slogan definitely suits him.

 Cameron was diagnosed in mid-January 2010, with a very aggressive bone tumor called Ewing’s Sarcoma.  Bone cancer makes up just one percent of all childhood cancers.  Fortunately, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford has a specialist for this particular cancer so parents Scott and Danielle Greenwood do not have to move their only child far from home to receive his treatments.

Soccer and Lacrosse are Cameron’s favorite sports and he plays them with passion.  He plays hard no matter the score and “quit” is not a word in his vocabulary.  He is a leader on his travel soccer team, coached by his father, and has formed a brotherhood with his teammates.  When Cam started to favor his left hip last fall, everyone thought it must have been muscle or ligament strain.  No one could imagine the real cause of his discomfort.  With a negative x-ray and the pain worsening, Scott and Danielle took their son for an MRI.  A parent’s worst fears were becoming reality for them.  An aggressive tumor was growing on Cameron’s pelvic bone and a biopsy revealed its malignancy.  Cameron started his treatments immediately and life has not been the same since. 

 More information can be found on the website www.kickinittogether.org  look Cameron’s journal.

A little more about Cam. . .

Cameron has the biggest blue eyes you have ever seen and his heart is of the same proportion.  This last Christmas, just prior to his diagnosis, he handed a Christmas list to his mom and dad and among the typical requests for the latest electronic devices, Cam also asked for $100 to donate to the charity of his choice.  When his mom asked what charity he had in mind, he told her wanted to donate to cancer research. 

They made good on the donation.  Let’s pay it forward.

Thank you for your support and generosity.

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