The Rogers are again embarking on a fund-raising effort in memory of our friends Adam and Amanda Petrzelka's son, Owen.
Until April 2020, Owen was a typical (and totally awesome) five year old. He loved kindergarten, ninjas, his scooter and Legos. As a proud brother, he taught his little sister the importance of support walls with forts and helped calm his little brother by hand holding and singing lullabies. After some unusual behavior, like falling downstairs and walking into walls, a MRI showed a tumor in his brain stem and cerebellum, which was confirmed to be DIPG – a very rare (only 300 diagnoses a year in the United States and Europe) and aggressive brain cancer. The jab of a pediatric cancer diagnosis is severe. The upper cut of a zero-survival rate is an absolute knockout. A zero-survival rate is beyond devastating and truly unimaginable.
Owen fought bravely against DIPG - we run in his honor.
Adam is a great friend and co-worker of Pete’s. They have organized this run to simply raise awareness for research around DIPG and give families more hope. Our family is going to participate on October 1st and would like to help them achieve some of those goals for Owen and other children who suffer from DIPG.
All donations will be given to the ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. ChadTough's mission is to inspire and fund game-changing research to discover effective treatments for pediatric brain cancer, with an emphasis on Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG).
Thank you in advance from the bottom of our hearts
To learn more about ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation, go to www.chadtough.org.
