"For Spencer's next hospital journey, Piggyback presented him with his own iPad. "When I said no, Piggyback said let us help you." The foundation helped pay for class trips, a class ring and letter jacket, back-to-school shopping and various other things through the years of Spencer's illness. "Both were involved in school activities that I just didn't have the extra money for," she said.
"Piggyback helped him celebrate with Indians tickets. "I wasn't even home when my oldest turned 18," she said. Jude's.īogan said PBF was a great help to her older children while she was helping Spencer deal with treatment for his illness. After a stay at home, the family learned Spencer's cancer had spread to a lung so Bogan and her son spent another few months at St. Jude's for surgery to remove a section of his scalp and receive 30 doses of radiation to his head. While her two older children stayed in Ohio, Bogan and Spencer had to spend four months at St. to Baylor University in Waco, Texas to the Cleveland Clinic Jude's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. When a bump on his head turned out to be a rare cancer, the family began a long journey from Ohio to St. Spencer was an 8-year-old boy who loved video games and playing little league baseball.
"I first met Lisa Hiler in 2010, the summer that would change my life forever," Bogan said. Lisa Bogan told the crowd how PBF helped her family through her son Spencer Rumer's 9-year battle with cancer.