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I saw this story on another forum I frequent.
Noah Biorkman was diagnosed with neuroblastoma (type of cancer which mainly afflicts young children) when he was three years old back in 07. He's now in hospice care and in the final stages of his life. Doctors and family aren't expecting him to live past Christmas.
From what I've read, when he was asked what he wanted for Christmas he simply stated "lots of Christmas cards".
I'm going to send mine off tomorrow and just wanted to post this here in case anyone else wanted to participate. I know there's a lot of really creative people on this forum so hopefully we can provide him with a lot of smiles.
Below is a rough draft of mine before I add color, glitter, pop out stuff. It's pretty horrible I know but hopefully some of you guys can show the same kind of awesomeness you did in the draw ur way across a bridge/pumpkin carving thread. :D
His address is in the sources below.
sources:
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/11/thousands_send_early_christmas.html
http://www.zimbio.com/Noah Biorkman/articles/bJCw9GM08Eq/Noah Biorkman Dying 5 Year Old Gets Early
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/21522646/detail.html
"Noah Biorkman has been fighting cancer since he was 3 years old. He was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in February of 2007, went into remission six months later but relapsed in September of 2008.
Noah is currently in hospice care and after his family asked for help in making this Christmas special for him by sending cards, they were overwhelmed with the response.
Thousands of cards and gifts have been pouring into the Biorkman’s mailbox from strangers around the world.
Noah had received 8,000 cards and gifts in the mail in just two days.
Wednesday, Local 4 was there as Noah opened some of the gifts with his family.
The 5-year-old said an angel figurine ornament was his favorite because it reminded him of where he’ll soon be.
“In heaven, and I’m going to be an angel,” Noah said.
His parents, Diana and Scott, said they have come to grips that their son won’t make it until Christmas Day in December.
“We made sure he got to have Christmas … my family dropped everything, they’re bringing the food, everybody’s coming and we’re all excited to spend Christmas with him this week,” Diana said. “His time is very short.”
Santa along with the South Lyon Fire Department visited Noah Friday at the family’s home.
Diana said she is asking that instead of sending gifts to Noah, send $1 in a card to the family and they will donate it to the University Of Michigan neuroblastoma research center and the Michigan Make A Wish Chapter.
Cards can be sent to:
Noah Biorkman
1141 Fountain View Circle
South Lyon, MI, 48178"
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I will send one. I am already sending for church so another one wont hurt :D
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awwwwww.... i'll start working on mine. 
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So sad. This is the kind of thing that really makes you realize that there is no benevolent man in the sky looking down on us all. The bitter irony is that times like this are when people paradoxically cling especially close to those ideas.
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On November 09 2009 07:36 Japakazol wrote:
So sad. This is the kind of thing that really makes you realize that there is no benevolent man in the sky looking down on us all. The bitter irony is that times like this are when people paradoxically cling especially close to those ideas.
I was just thinking that actually
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Please don't make this another religion thread.
I'll definitely send one.
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If I were dying. The last thing I wanted would be christmas cards...
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On November 09 2009 08:08 Rotodyne wrote:
I have no soul.
this guy makes me mad.
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On November 09 2009 08:09 Manit0u wrote:
If I were dying. The last thing I wanted would be christmas cards...
but then again...you're not an innocent 5 year old who's felt nothing but pain for two years.
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On November 09 2009 08:08 Rotodyne wrote:
I have no soul.
Then don't suck us into your misery. Go find some other site to troll on.
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I would obviously never send that to the kid, and everything in my post was 100% true. I see no problem :/
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What did the sad boy who'd been fighting cancer since he was 3 years old. But went into remission six months later but relapsed in September of 2008 get for christmas?
+ Show Spoiler +AIDS
A KICKASS CHRISTMAS CARD!
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God thats terrible. Poor child, no one that young should die.
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Never thought a thread with such a positive objective could get derailed so fast lol
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On November 09 2009 08:14 Rotodyne wrote:
I would obviously never send that to the kid, and everything in my post was 100% true. I see no problem :/
You don't see an issue with posting something 100% irrelevant to the topic at hand that you know would piss other people off?
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am i the only one who actually feel a huge pain in the heart (literally) when something like this happens? dammit... cant believe someone makes fun of it.
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South Lyon? The kid lives like 25 minutes north of me. Poor kid, to only live 5 years while most of that time was spent in pain and misery.
Shame this thread had to be ruined by a heaven/God discussion. It's pretty sad and pathetic that that's the first thing that comes to your head when you read the OP.
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On November 09 2009 08:14 Rotodyne wrote:
I would obviously never send that to the kid, and everything in my post was 100% true. I see no problem :/
You didn't send it to the kid, but you sent it to everyone who reads this thread, thus robbing them of any good feelings that may have come from it.
Uncool.
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On November 09 2009 08:14 Rotodyne wrote:
I would obviously never send that to the kid, and everything in my post was 100% true. I see no problem :/
Seriously dude? Troll much
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