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Help Make Terminally Ill 5-Year-Old Boy's Wish Come True

The Cosmic Cow's Carra Riley sent me a message on Facebook from one of her other Facebook friends telling me about this heartbreaking/heartwarming story that I wanted to pass along to everyone else in hopes that you, dear Active Rain members, will help this little boy and his family create a legacy of help and hope for other little kids.

Little Noah Biorkman is a typical 5-year-old boy: he loves Christmas. However, what is atypical for this little guy is that he has been fighting cancer since he was 3 years old. When it went into remission in late 2007, the family was overjoyed. But, a year later, Noah experienced a relapse. Currently, Noah is in hospice care in Michigan after being diagnosed with end stage neuroblastoma. Both he and his family have come to terms with the fact that Noah most likely will not make it to Christmas. But, instead of focusing on the negative, they have decided to make the most of the time Noah has left in this world. Christmas was brougth to Noah this weekend.

After the family had put out Noah's request to receive as many Christmas cards as possible, they were overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and wishes from all over the world, including a package from as far away as Hong Kong. So far, they have received around 8000 cards. The family is forever grateful to all these people for showing such tremendous support to their little boy. Since the Biorkman family has received so many packages, they have set up a trust fund in Noah's name and have asked that, in lieu of gifts, please send a card with $1 inside and they will donate all money received in Noah's name to the University of Michigan's neuroblastoma research center and the Michigan Make-a-Wish chapter. Please send a card to the family. If you wish to also send them a gift, please make a donation instead of anything you are comfortable with.

Cards can be sent to:

Noah Biorkman
1141 Fountain View Circle
South Lyon, MI 48178

Thank you, Carra, for letting me know about this story. It is heartbreaking as well as heartwarming. My card and donation are in the mail tomorrow. I hope more people join me in this.

Click here to view the video of Noah's story on Click on Detroit.

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Posted by Heather Chavez, Second Self Virtual Assistance (928) 412-4469 on 11/08/2009 11:37 AM

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14 Comments on Help Make Terminally Ill 5-Year-Old Boy's Wish Come True

NOV

Heather, thank you for spreading the word......it is sad, but what a tremendous response. I will keep Noah and his family and friends in my prayers.

Ms. Heather,

You are simply the best. You see a need and you do something about it. I am so blessed to have you as an activerain and cyber friend! I think this is what helping the world is all about. The Internet allows us to communicate with literally Millions of people! A great example of facebook and blog posts working together!

Thank you for posting this and hopefully others reading will re-blog it and activerain will reign in the out pour of support for Noah Biorkman!

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And, if you can, send them a Christmas card with $1 in it to donate in Noah's name to the charities named above, Ann. This family is showing tremendous resilience in the face of hardship. I think we should all show our support.

Thank you, Carra, for letting me know about this. I hope people will help spread the word. I can't imagine losing my son like this. I would hope I could show as much grace as they do. Re-blog away!

NOV

Heather--What a great reason to pull out the Christmas decorations as I know they are some where in one of the boxes. I will do that this evening. And I will keep the family in my prayers throughout the holiday season. Mary

Russel, Zoey, and I sent three cards, one from each of us. Hopefully he likes cats.

NOV

Mary and Russel,

You are both special activerain friends! I know the family will appreciate the love expressed!

If you find it in your heart to send the family a card, that would be cool, too, Mary.

Way to go, Jim. You and Russel are so cool. And, of course, Zoey's in a league of her own! ;)

Thank you again for letting us all know about this, Carra. It's so easy to make a difference in someone's life, even if it's in a small way.

NOV

Sending a card his way; blessings to you for sharing Noah's story.

NOV

Thanks for sharing this. I'm going to send a card tomorrow. It is always sad to hear of young kids going through something like this. When we get older we have had a chance to live some of our life, but a three year old hasn't really begun to experience life.

Thank you, Teral. I'm sure the family will be grateful.

You are so right, Charles. As parents, we are only prepared to die first. We don't prepare to be the ones to bury our children. And the fact that this little guy is aware of his mortality at such a young age and has affected so many people may be the reason he was put here to begin with.

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