Service Learning- Where am I now?

Service Learning- Where am I now?

These past few weeks I have been looking into service learning, especially into one aspect that I would like people to know more about. And this is on a girl called Marcie Loader. Marcie discovered she had Ewings Sarcoma (bone cancer) when she was 8 in 2004 and later developed leukaemia as a result of her Chemo-Theropy and sadly died in 2009 aged 13. I think she should be commemorated because she didn't live a normal life that a child would. I would also like to inform people about the type of cancer she suffered from as it is quite a rare form of cancer. Marcie is true inspiration to all young people suffering with cancer as it didn't effect the way she lived as she remained light hearted and didn't let her cancer hold her back.

I wrote a 50 word summary about her story:

She was 8 when she was diagnosed. She underwent several types of treatment all over the country and spent most of her time with The Sebastian’s action trust; she underwent Chemo when she was 10, which didn’t work in the long run. Sadly she lost her battle aged 13. 

I wrote some words that would describe her and her life:

courageous 

bitter-sweet

heart breaking

I also wrote some questions I would ask her if she was here, these questions were focusing on what advise she would give to other young people suffering from cancer. I had to imagine what she would say in response. I though she would tell them to live their life to the 'max' and not let anyone or their condition to hold them back too much. 

One of the main things that would knock someones self confidence would be loosing their hair. This would make you feel very self conscious and not want to go out as they will be fearing others thoughts and what they may say. But Marcie was a strong person therefore I think she would tell other people not to worry and just go for it.

I have done some research on Marcie's own page and the Sebastian's trust page which she was associated with. It tells her and her mothers story which I will hopefully create a piece of writing out of. 

This is what she said "I stayed in Reading for a few days, while they did loads of tests on me. I met some excellent people including the big rugby-playing consultant Mr Sean O’Leary. I saw him on 7th February, and he told mummy and daddy the MRI scan had showed that I had a growth, the size of a snooker ball, in my spine, at the very bottom, in the sacrum (just above the coccyx). He said the tumour was malignant which means it was a dangerous one, a cancer which will carry on growing until I go pop basically, so it needed to be stopped.” (from http://sebastiansactiontrust.org)