Music video from the 2015 “I Think I Can” gala event. Features patients, doctors, nurses, medical staff, researchers from the UA Steele Children’s Research Center and Banner Children’s at Diamond Children’s Medical Center.
Source: Tucson.com Rich Rodriguez hears about most of the patients his players visit the day before home games at Diamond Children’s hospital. Kelsey Luria, Rodriguez knew, was the football girl. A senior football trainer at Catalina Foothills High School, Kelsey — who struck up a friendship with several UA players...
(Courtesy: KVOA-TV) When Kristi’s Kids met Kelsey Luria last December, she had just started her fight with acute myelogenous leukemia. Her blood type is B positive. This phrase soon became her mantra. Through her fight with cancer, Kelsey said she was scared but strong. Kelsey just wanted to inspire and...
Wilbur, Wilma and members of the University of Arizona admissions team waited outside a UA Medical Center hospital room, eager to file in and deliver an acceptance letter to the newest Wildcat: Kelsey Luria.
After two false starts, the 3rd cycle of treatment is finally underway. I was admitted this morning and chemo started this evening. More on that soon. In the meantime, my interview with Senior Lovin was published. Cancer is going down! When were you diagnosed with Leukemia? I was diagnosed with...
The room at Diamond Children’s Hospital is small and dark. It has one window and shakes when the hospital helicopter lands above it. The brownish-orange walls frame a room that’s just barely enough room for a bed, a large chair, a couch and a couple of other accessories. But as...
Kelsey wrote an op-ed in the the Arizona Daily Star. The following is an excerpt. Please read more to take you to the site. I have been asked what Judaism means to me throughout my life. Before traveling on the March of the Living educational program, I did not know...
#BPOSITIVE TUCSON -Kelsey Luria is a 17 year old senior at Catalina Foothills High School, and was being bombarded with headaches. “I would just have, like, this constant headache my head would just be banging. It would feel like someone would be shooting at my head,” said Luria. “And then,...