{"id":52958,"date":"2018-04-20T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/?p=52958"},"modified":"2018-04-20T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:00:22","slug":"ross-medical-johnson-city-makes-cards-lucas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/ross-medical-johnson-city-makes-cards-lucas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Medical in Johnson City Makes Cards for Lucas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Johnson-City-Cards-for-Lucas-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Medical Education Center Johnson City Cards for Lucas\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-52960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Johnson-City-Cards-for-Lucas-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Johnson-City-Cards-for-Lucas-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Johnson-City-Cards-for-Lucas.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>During the first part of March, students at the <a href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/campus\/tn\/johnson-city.php\">Ross Medical Education Center Johnson City, Tennessee campus<\/a> took some time to make very creative and encouraging cards and notes for Lucas. Lucas is a local young boy who was diagnosed with a malignant tumor on his spine. He had surgery in September and it was revealed the cancer had spread to his brain. Doctors are watching it closely to make sure it is not spreading any further.<\/p>\n<p>Every two weeks, Lucas and his family head to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balladhealth.org\/st-jude-tri-cities-affiliate-clinic\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">St. Jude\u2019s at Niswonger Children\u2019s Hospital in Johnson City<\/a> for a neurology checkup. He had to go back to St. Jude\u2019s in Memphis at the end of March. If the cancer had spread he will have to undergo chemotherapy. His cancer is not curable, but the doctors are hopeful that it could sit for a long time and not spread, and his family is hoping and praying for a miracle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Johnson-City-Cards-for-Lucas-WCQR-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Medical Education Center Johnson City Cards for Lucas\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-52961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Johnson-City-Cards-for-Lucas-WCQR-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Johnson-City-Cards-for-Lucas-WCQR-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ross-Medical-Education-Center-Johnson-City-Cards-for-Lucas-WCQR.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cI was on my way to work and heard this story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcqr.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">WCQR 88.3 radio station<\/a>, and it touched my heart. I knew that the students and faculty at our campus would love to get involved and partner with WCQR to give encouragement to this superhero,\u201d shared Michelle Faust, Instructor in the <a href=\"\/programs\/medical-insurance-billing-and-office-administration\/\">Medical Insurance Billing and Office Administration program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas turned four years old in January and loves superheroes. He also loves to get mail, because his dad is a postman. WCQR, a local radio station, is asking for people to buy a card, make a homemade card, or write a note of encouragement for Lucas. WCQR will present these to him. Heather Thomas, Office Assistant in Johnson City, said, \u201cwe hope this will show this superhero how much he is loved and encourage him to keep fighting.\u201d At the end of the drive, Michelle Faust was able to hand deliver these cards to the radio station.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the first part of March, students at the Ross Medical Education Center Johnson City, Tennessee campus took some time&hellip;<br \/><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/ross-medical-johnson-city-makes-cards-lucas\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}