This morning I received an email from Nikki, a nursing student from West Virginia, with information about a child’s Christmas wish that I though we might be able to help come true on some small level.
According to Nikki, Max, an 8-year-old boy battling leukemia, will not make it home to celebrate Christmas and has one crazy, fun Christmas wish:
He would like to receive 1,000,000 Christmas cards in the mail.
If you would like to send him a card and help make his Christmas wish come true, cards may be sent to:
Max c/o Hailey Remish
417 Jones Street
Belle Vernon, PA
15012
Thank you so much and Happy Holidays!!
P.S. A BIG thank you to those of you who have already commented on my morning Facebook post about this and passed along Max’s address to your friends and family. You are wonderful!
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that is too adorable! I wonder how he came up with that idea!
Oh I definitely will send him one! I just bought christmas card supplies today! Thanks for sharing!
my son and I will be sending one! what a great idea
So so awesome! I’ll be writing him a card and sharing his address on my blog 🙂 Great idea!
This is AWESOME. Love the idea.
Ps. did you use gelly pens to write that?I used to love those!
What a sweet wish! My prayers go out to him and his family
This is fantastic! What a wonderful, heart filled thing to do to brighten the holiday season for Max. I hope his wish comes true! 🙂
Me, my wife and my children will all be sending cards. Plus we are telling everyone we know about it also.
I’ll send him a Christmas card right now! Mine has a picture of my puppy wrapped in Christmas lights.
This is so exciting. I’ve been looking to do something wonderful like this during this Christmas season. I’ll definitely be spreading the word on my blog.
This is so awesome! I’m trying to think how I can acquire all of the materials I need to get my 100+ students to make a post card for him!
Love this! Can’t believe I didn’t hear about it before–my hometown is right by Belle Vernon! Definitely posting this on my blog!!
This is such a great idea! I’ll definitely be sending one!
That’s awesome Julie 🙂 Can you please give me the full address? I’m actually from Australia.
I live 20 min from belle Vernon!
too cute…i gotta send him a card 🙂
um, YAY WEST VIRGINIA!
just posted this on my facebook & will be finding a christmas card for max before work tomorrow! this is so wonderful. thank you for sharing!
I’m totally gonna send him one!! What an easy way to make someone’s wish come true 🙂 You’re awesome! I’m a kindergarten teacher so I’m going to get my 22 students to make him a Christmas card as well and I’ll mail them all out!! :))
ps~ Which do they prefer? Sent to his house or his hospital??
Hi Julie,
What a thoughtful Christmas wish! I look at your blog every morning before I start my day, I’m currently in AFG and look forward to looking at a normal person’s daily activities. It’s definitely all about the little things. I’ve already told the office and there will be a number of soldiers who will be sending their Christmas wishes to this little boy! Thanks again for bringing light to Max’s life. We will all keep him in our thoughts!
placing it as my facebook status immediately. As a pediatric nurse I always feel so bad for the kids stuck in the hospital during the holidays. As fun as we try to make it seem, it’s just not the same. It would be amazing if we could all help to achieve this boys wish!
Thanks for sharing this wonderful story Julie. I dedicated my post to it tonight (http://inherchucks.com/2011/12/10/a-christmas-wish/) and will be sharing it on my Facebook as well. Here’s to Max’s wish coming true!
* * * i hope max’s parents learn about the ketogenic diet for cancer. * * *
My boyfriend and I mailed our cards this morning! 🙂
Virginia Tech’s Kappa Delta chapter has helped to spread this message along! hope it helps!
With love in AOT,
Lia
i sent out two (my mom & i) today 🙂
This is so inspiring and touching! Me and my Dear [each] will DEF be sending him a card!!! My younger brother was diagnosed with a chronic illness when he was 6 years old and spent long periods of time for a few years in the hospital. The holiday’s were especially hard since all he wanted to do was be home for Santa… We will be thinking of Max and his family this year <3
I totally bought a christmas card for Max when I was out christmas shopping this weekend. What an inspiring story. Thanks so much for sharing!
One little card sent from Alabama! Hope he gets his wish!!!
I’m totally going to do this… i’ll link this post on my blog to so even more people will check out your post and help his wish come true!
Sent mine from Madrid! I’m finishing up my semester abroad and I can’t think of a better person to send my last post-card to!
i told the princeble of my school about this to see if we could make them in class and she thought it was a great idea but she said i have to prove it to her that this is not just a prank or a scam how can i do that
i told the principle of my school about this to see if we could make them in class and she thought it was a great idea but she said i have to prove it to her that this is not just a prank or a scam how can i do that
Hi Cara! I actually called the hospital and got confirmation on it… Cards may also be sent directly to the hospital:
Ruby Memorial Hospital
Attn: WVU Children’s Hospital/Max
1 Medical Center Drive
Morgantown, WV 26506-8110
You could also call the hospital to check if you want to be 100 percent sure as well!
I too called the hospital to find out if this was true. (snopes had a similar story-different child’s name). The woman said she could not confirm if the story was true however any cards sent should not go to the hospital (there was no “Max” there but wouldnt confirm if there may of been) but to the church below.
Saint Luke church
19 Joe Glenn drive
Morgantown WV 26508
I would like to believe it is true but seeing as to how close the plea is to the spam from years before I find it doubtful.
Nonetheless I thought I would include the correct address.
I called the hospital and verified it is true. I am a teacher and got 157 handmade cards from students at my school! I can’t wait to mail them off tomorrow!!
I wish we could see the smile in his family’s face when he opens them.
Merry Christmas!