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News
2009
Stone king stays strong in the battle against cancer
J ulia V an W inkle & G race W all
Every day many of us
take our health for granted;
never realizing that in one
moment that can all change.
On Sept. 7, after suffering
from headaches and
consulting doctors, Jake
Stoneking, freshman, was
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diagnosis.
A website on Caring
Bridge was set up for
Stoneking and his mother,
Wendy, makes frequent
updates about his
condition. Many people
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jacobstoneking.
"I think we've
all been touched,
and feel a real
motivation to be
vith him each
>tep of the way,"
?usan Kruger,
i family friend,
said.
To help
Dtoneking's
family out with
Tie process,
Susan Kruger
and Lorie
Griffith, have
organized a
While insurance
edical bills, it
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these costs. To
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?r@comcast.net.
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just for me, but
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freshman
i it. Since then
?n receiving
rapy and
to treat the
metimes on the
ow Stoneking
rs from the
and is eating
f formula a day
through a tube. He has
been losing weight, but
it has steadied. Friends
Mitchell Wible and
Mitchell Blatt, freshmen,
went trick-or-treating
for Stoneking, because he
couldn't.
"The power of your
support is uplifting,"
Wendy Stoneking said.