This Florida resort gives critically ill children the chance to just be kids

01/10/24 at 04:00 AM

This Florida resort gives critically ill children the chance to just be kids
USA Today, by Eve Chen; 1/9/24
Eight-year-old Zachary Doyle was in hospice when his family got a chance for one more adventure. “We adopted Zachary when he was 7 weeks old, and he had spina bifida and hydrocephalus, which at the time seemed like manageable diagnoses that we could tackle as a family,” his mom, Susan Doyle. ... She said he underwent around 40 brain and heart surgeries like ”a champ,” but ran out of treatment options last year. “We were pretty resigned to being at home and finishing out the end at home,” Doyle said. That was until Zachary was granted a rush wish trip to Walt Disney World through Gentle Shepherd Hospice in Lynchburg, Virginia. 

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