Rodney’s Special Time at the Jags Game

Rodney, 17, is battling liver failure. A huge football fan, Rodney recently attended the Jaguars game with his family and sat in the City Council suite!  Thanks to Council President Ronnie Fussell for this exciting donation.


Anna's American Girl dream!
Anna is six and is battling leukemia.  The American Girl Place in New York made all of Anna’s “dreams come true!”  She is a collector of these wonderful dolls and was made queen for a day at the American Girl Place .

J.T.'s Miami Adventure! 
Episcopal High School football player, J.T. Townsend suffered a spinal cord injury in a high school football game.  The senior team captain assisted on a tackle from his strong safety position when he fell to the ground and briefly lost consciousness. He was transported from the field on a cart to Shands Jacksonville.  Since then J.T. has been in and out of the children’s hospital, rehabilitation clinic and doctors’ offices.    In July 2005, he became the 18th patient to have a diaphragm pacing system surgically implanted, which allowed him to come off a ventilator. For this local hero’s dream, he wanted to meet one of his own heroes, Shaquille O'Neal of the Miami Heat.   J.T. was treated like royalty in Miami when he visited the Miami Heat and Miami Dolphins.  A dream come true!

Dreamers' Corner
Have you ever wondered what’s going on in the lives of our former dreamers?

Matthew Hines' Update
Matthew was 10 years old and battling lung cancer when he went on his dream trip to the Grand Canyon in 1999.  He went on to graduate in the top 20% of his high school class, maintaining a 3.5 grade point average.  Matthew is now a six-foot-eight junior on basketball scholarship at Southern University in New Orleans.  What an amazing story of inspiration!

Tim's Update
Tim, who was 15 when he was referred to Dreams Come True due to a brain tumor, enjoyed a dream trip to Los Angeles to visit family and friends in 1991. We are happy to report Tim graduated from medical school in May 2002, and he is now DR. TIM! He went to Wake Forest University for his pediatric residency, then decided to explore the field of emergency medicine. Upon completion of his residency in emergency medicine, Tim and his beautiful family moved to Phoenix where he is now employed.


                                           

     

                                                                                                                    
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