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Carson Braun

Carson @ St. Jude during photo shoot-9/20/11

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Thursday, November 17, 2011 7:27 PM CST

I thought it was time to update to tell our exciting news. Back in September when we were at St. Jude for Carson's check-up I received a call asking if I would be willing to do an interview about Carson and have him do a photo shoot. They were wanting to do a story for Promise magazine that will come out in January about a child with medulloblastoma with a sucess story and our name was given. Well obviously I said "yes". Then last Wednesday after school, I got a call from another lady from ALSAC (fundraising part of St. Jude) telling me that she had read our story and showed it to the Today Show and they wanted to do a story on Carson for the Thanks and Giving campaign they do the week of Thanksgiving. Well once again we agreed to it. This meant that we had to leave on Sunday going to Memphis to be followed by the Today Show cameras and producer and then come home that night for the Today Show camera and producers to come into our home and follow us for a day on tuesday. We had to do some fast moving to get the house decorated and ready, shop for new clothes to wear on TV, and pack to go to Memphis. Oh yeah, and teach and get ready for our big Thanksgiving Feast at school. Well we made it and thanks to Nana the house looked great. We had a long day in Memphis and finally got to bed around midnight on Monday. Then up at 4:00 am to be ready for the camera crew to get there at 6:15 am. They wanted to get us getting the boys up. Carson got up before we were ready. He showed us. They went to school with us and got footage of him at school for half a day. They were just amazed at how wonderful everyone was to Carson. Then the 2nd half of the day they got footage of them at our house and did a short interview with Carson and a long interview with me. The next day it was hard to go back to school as normal people with no cameras following us. HA!! But about 10:30 that morning I got another call from St. Jude telling us that the Today Show producers fell in love with Carson and wanted to invite us to come to New York for the week of Thanksgiving. We were ecstatic. We will be leaving Monday morning heading to New York. We will possibly be at NASDAQ on Tuesday morning with Marlo Thomas to ring the opening bell. Today they asked us to come to the studio on Wednesday, Nov. 23rd. This is the day our story will be aired. They will provide a Thanksgiving meal for us on Thurday after we get to go see the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. We will hand out St. Jude items on the plaza on Friday morning before heading home that afternoon. We do not have our final itinerary but this is what they think we will be doing. Also, Justin Beiber will be on the Today Show the same day that we are. Cameron is beside himself. He even thinks that he might ask him to sing with him. LOL. We feel so blessed that they chose Carson and our family to be a part of the Thanks and Giving campaign. For all that he has been thru in his almost nine years, he absoutely deserves it!!! We are so proud of him. He's our little warrior, a true blessing from God.

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Links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD1Ks-Z0JRM   Wiffle Ball 2011
http://www.perkinsfirm.com/carson.htm   Full Text of Carson's Story
https://www.mystjudeheroes.org/cbraun   St Jude Heroes


 
 

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