Katelyn credits her parents, Mary and Scott and her brother Gareth with keeping her going through her illness. “Every time Gareth came I felt better,” she says. “Even when I was really sick he’d come and visit and I’d feel 100 times better when he was there.”
“She’s my sister, so she means pretty much everything,” says Gareth a Grade 6 student.
Katelyn’s spirits were also buoyed up by the support of her school, Rothesay Park School. Funds were raised to help the family defray expenses. This included one special project where a group of students made and sold braided “Kate bracelets.”
Also each week, students, teachers and parents walked around the school field, with every lap raising money. Katelyn was given a jar full of beads, each bead represented a lap completed.
“It was amazing, considering that I’d only been at the school for half of a year. The whole school was raising money it was really, really cool just to see how into it they all were, says Katelyn.
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