Beads of Courage comes to Valley Children's Hospital

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Eight-year-old Carly Brandl loves to colour and draw. So, it's fitting that 1 her favorites subjects is not lone math, but besides art. Carly adores her feline Sharkie.

Not lone is she Creative Carly, but besides Courageous Carly.

On December 21st 2022, Carly was diagnosed with Medulloblastoma, which is simply a cancerous encephalon tumor.

"We went to the ER, with flu similar symptoms, we had been to the doc aggregate times, she was having truly atrocious headaches and they instantly pushed her into the ER, and erstwhile we spell determination she had had a seizure," Mother Kristy Brandl said.

Two days later, Carly spent 9 hours successful country arsenic her doc worked to region the tumor.

"Childhood crab is thing you ever privation to experience. It's a parent's worst nightmare," Kristy said.

After a week astatine Valley Children's, Carly was capable to spell home. But connected her 7th birthday, she began further attraction successful San Diego.

"I went to 2 antithetic hospitals. One for my radiation and 1 wherever I would get my larboard entree and stuff," Carly said.

It was determination successful San Diego wherever the wellness attraction workers introduced Carly to the Beads of Courage Program.

"She got hooked each week, we would get our beads and she would beryllium and drawstring them, which was precise adjuvant successful her recovery," Kristy said.

The Beads of Courage programme uses the beads to assistance people a milestone successful a kid oregon teen's recovery.

"It tin beryllium a truly large event, a important process oregon beingness changing step," Marisa Ybarra Reyes with Valley Chrildren's Hospital said.

When Carly recovered retired determination wasn't a Beads of Courage programme astatine Valley Children's Hospital, she wanted to bring that acquisition backmost home.

"I wanted different kids to person thing to look guardant to and propulsion done that day," Carly said.

So acold the Beads of Courage programme astatine Valley Children's is lone wrong the oncology department, with the anticipation of expanding it to different areas down the road.

Hoping to enslaved others done the beads.

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