September 21, 2016
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Submitted photos (Top Left) The Bartold family with Will in his hospital room while receiving treatment. (Right) Ten-year-old Will Bartold with St. Louis Blues mascot Louie. Bartold was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer that occurs primarily in children. (Bottom Left) The Aidan Murrow Trio are made of up of Adrian Murrow on guitar with twin brothers, Jacob and Zachary Ruhmann on drums and bass respectively. The trio will be playing at a fundraiser to help the Bartold family in their medical expenses.
Community rallies around fifth-grader battling cancer Learn & Play
By Brett Auten In a time of need and support, friends and loved ones are paramount. A local family has been emotionally put through the ringer and an O’Fallon church is doing what it can to help. The Assumption Church is having a BBQ Chicken Dinner on Saturday, Sept. 25 from 1 - 6 p.m. to benefit the Bartold family with its medical expenses. “We wanted to do what we can to make it easier on them and show them how much support they have,” Norma O’Bryan, a friend of the Bartold family, said. “The Bartolds have been very positive and Will always has a smile on his face.” Ten-year-old Will Bartold was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer that occurs primarily in children. In August, a bone with a seven-inch tumor was removed from his arm. Doctors replaced that bone with one from his leg, and he faces several more chemotherapy sessions before the end of the year. The doctors found an eight-centimeter tumor in Will’s arm and it turns out that the pain was osteosarcoma Like that, the Bartolds’ lives were turned upside down. The family went from two incomes to one and instead of
loading up the car and going to hockey games, it is now the mind-numbing drives to doctors, labs, treatments and chemotherapy appointments. Will, a fifth-grader at Forest Park Elementary, started his 30 weeks of chemo on Mother’s Day weekend recently had surgery to remove part of the tumor. Each round of chemo the Bartolds have to stay at Children’s Hospital for a minimum of three days. While they have had good news with the recent August operation, it is still going to be a long, uphill climb for the family. Assumption Church is hoping that the love and financial help of their family and friends, their new normal will be easier to transition to. Will recently made headlines when he as invited to the Hardee’s IcePlex in Chesterfield where he was named an honorary member of the Blues Alumni during its annual Fantasy Camp. He was greeted at the door by former Blues who led him to the locker room to meet all of the Blues Alumni playing in the three-day camp plus current Blues. It was an emotional moment when Will walked onto the ice, where all 200 of the former See COMMUNITY page 2
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