North Texas Family Beats Cancer With Help Of "Wipe Out Cancer"
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - One local family says when cancer hit their family; it was their little girl who taught them how to be tough.
With one word, Scary, Gabrielle Fox describes her battle with cancer.
At only 4 years old, she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
"You're going through life everything is great, healthy kid you hear news like this and everything changes overnight," says Gabrielle's father Albert.
For 2 1/2 years Gabrielle fought.
"I had to take a lot of medicine."
She endured chemotherapy, surgeries, medications, hospital stays and intense pain, but Gabrielle is one tough little girl.
"Throughout the whole treatment, she was the one who had the strength. She taught me how to persevere. I was the one falling apart, but watching her go through what she had to go through and do it with a smile," explains her mother Jennifer.
And her family says nothing helped her smile more than her time as an ambassador for Wipe Out Kids Cancer.
"We went to a basketball game. We went fishing. Something amazing for me as an ambassador family was seeing. Gabrielle enjoy herself so much at these events," says Jennifer.
"We didn't have to talk about cancer, or treatment or pills or spinal taps or anything related to cancer during those times when we had events with wipe out kids cancer. That was essential for our sanity."
Now at 7-years old Gabrielle is cancer free and her family entire is thankful.
On top of those fun times wipe out kids cancer provides, they also work hard to raise money for cancer research.
That's why CBS 11 is teaming up with them on Tuesday April 7th from 6am to 7pm for a special phone bank.
