Purpose

About

Deanna

Glossup

and where she goes for treatment:

Deanna was diagnosed in 2003 at the age of 10 with Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer usually found in children and young adults. Due to several relapses of her disease, there have been subsequent complications and many return visits to the Vanderbilt Children's Hospital since 2003. Against all odds, Deanna is now entering into her fourth year of chemotherapy treatments. At the age of 14, she continues to fight her cancer with her infinite faith, her charmingly, uncompromising attitude, and her incredible determination that she will win this battle. Deanna is a very loving and giving young lady. She worries more about others than she does about herself. On days when Deanna and her family are at the hospital or the oncology clinic, they can be found wandering the halls of the Vanderbilt Children's Hospital with the desire of lifting spirits and doing things for the other children and their families who are confined to the hospital. One of Deanna's favorite gifts for the younger children is a stuffed animal that she has personally built for them at Build-A-Bear. The stuffed animal's name on it's birth certificate is the child's name who is the recipient of the gift. Deanna also loves to do age appropriate gifts for her teen friends who are also in the hospital.

Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital

The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is a place to hope and place to heal for patients and their families. Vanderbilt Children’s is the most comprehensive children’s hospitals in the state, providing services from cancer treatments, organ and bone marrow transplants to repairing broken legs and everything in between. We treat all children regardless of ability to pay. Vanderbilt Children’s has the only Pediatric Emergency Department in Middle Tennessee with more than 40,000 visits in 2006, and more than 140,000 patients were seen in outpatient clinics the same year.