Iron Kid – Austin Edmonds
May 6, 2009
Howdy all,
Skywalk Pharmacy’s 4th Iron Kid of the Game was Austin Edmonds on May 1st. Austin was born with a rare kidney disease, which lead to a kidney transplant when he was 14 months. The kidney transplant was done at Children’s Hospital, his grandfather, Elton, donated one of his kidneys and Austin’s were removed. Austin is now 5 1/2 years old. He has had 20 surgery’s and cancer treatment for Burkkits Lymphoma, a rare childhood cancer, that was found when he was 3. Austin continues to have health, sensory and ADHD issues due to some of the chemo drug side effects and passed health history. He is scheduled for his 21st surgery in April of 09 for a tooth issue. In general Austin is doing good, he continues to go to Renal, Oncology, Feeding, ENT, and Behavioral Clinics on a regular basis to monitor his progress. We continue to administer his drugs thru his “G” Tube located in his tummy.
To learn more about Austin, you can visit his care page at
http://caringbridge.org/visit/austinedmonds
Austin and his family had a great time. The best part of the evening (the Iron didn’t play very well again), was when Austin was getting autographs. He first asked defensive standout, Quartez Vickerson to “Sign your name here and put your “picture” here” while pointing to the football that team owner, Drew Vallozzi gave him. Well, Quartez was a little confused at first trying to figure out how to put his “picture” on the football, but he said “OK” and he drew a little self portrait. Well after that, Austin asked everyone to “sign your name here and put your picture there” and everyone starting drawing little pictures of themselves. It was great. Check out the picture of the football to see a couple of their self portraits.
Take care and try not to get the swine flu. We will see you at the next game.
