Column: Father recalls anonymous donation of $50,000 that helped save his son’s life: ‘Miracles really do occur’
When the email came in from Juan Romero asking that I give him a call, I have to admit I did so with some apprehension. The last time I had spoken with him, in February 2017, the Aurora, Illinois, father was desperate: His then-9-year-old son, Carlos, was battling a rare and deadly bone cancer that tends to hit children and young adults. And he was struggling to come up with the money needed ...
by Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune
Dec 06, 2023
4 minutes
When the email came in from Juan Romero asking that I give him a call, I have to admit I did so with some apprehension.
The last time I had spoken with him, in February 2017, the Aurora, Illinois, father was desperate: His then-9-year-old son, Carlos, was battling a rare and deadly bone cancer that tends to hit children and young adults. And he was struggling to come up with the money needed for an expensive drug, not approved in the U.S., that could keep his son’s cancer in remission.
Without it, he told me back then, the tumors his son continued to develop would
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