[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 148 (Thursday, September 6, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H7900-H7901]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         SEPTEMBER IS NATIONAL CHILDHOOD CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

  (Mr. OLSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, September is the National Childhood Cancer 
Awareness Month. It is a month about a young lady from home. Her name 
is Marlee Pack.
  On April 10 of 2015, she was told a small bump on her left foot was 
cancer. Two weeks later, her left foot was cut off. Next was 40 
straight weeks of chemotherapy in Houston. The chemo took all of her 
hair, but it never took her smile.
  She kept smiling when her cancer came back in July of 2017. She 
smiled because she beat her cancer again. Marlee smiles because she is 
bathed in love from her parents, a teacher who let Marlee shave her 
head at school,

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and a parade at her school, Sienna Crossing Elementary in Fort Bend 
County.
  But Marlee's biggest smile is yet to come. Soon, she will ring that 
bell that she is cancer-free. Let's smile with Marlee and make D.C. 
gold this month.

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