Sean's Room

♥ March 30, 1990-January 10, 2012 ♥

Sean is a senior at Chenango Valley High School. At the age of 10, Sean became one of six children diagnosed with cancer in his neighborhood. In 2007, he celebrated his 7- year cancer free milestone, but later that year, was diagnosed with a brain tumor, a direct effect of the radiation he had in 2000 as part of his leukemia treatment. After the tumor was removed, Sean had to undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatments each day, for 6 weeks.

As an effort to help, volunteers from A Room to Heal, created a healing bedroom for Sean. Sean's older brother, Matt, generously traded his room with Sean to give him more space. HealthNow New York helped contribute financially to the project and sent volunteers to help paint the walls in Sean's favorite colors - orange and neon green! Beautiful furniture was added to the room, along with a flat screen TV, a laptop computer, and a rotary phone that he requested. In addition, a Susan Kerr original painting hung saying "Standing Strong." Sean was thrilled with his room and redered speechless.

It was an amazing experience for all who were involved and it felt really good to provide such a wonderful space for this special teenager.