There’s Ethan Alves, a kid who constantly seems surrounded by laughter. Bush is an athlete - no problem getting him involved in sports, but with arts and crafts you have to cajole. Rhoads has figured out ways to reach just about everybody. “That’s because I cheer people on,” Rhoads mutters. “I think Kaeden is the reason most people make it to the top,” someone says. Just now, H’s second is supporting almost all of him. Climbers are assisted by someone on the ground, a second, who uses their body weight to keep a cord lashed around the climbers’ waists holding them aloft. Plastic handholds designed to look like stones on a rockface are scattered across the wooden wall. “This is literally his first time doing this,” Rhoads says, pointing at H, a slight boy with tangles of dark hair poking out from under his helmet, as he tentatively inches his way up. Ask him why his parents named him for the eighth letter of the alphabet, and he shrugs.)īush was born with coarctation of the aorta and bicuspid aortic valve. Rhoads cranes his neck to look up one of the tower walls and watch veteran camper and resident jock Jaxin Bush, 13, race first-year camper H Byrd, 11, up the wall. This camp taught me that it’s OK.” The climb The world used to tell me you’re not allowed to be different. I was bullied all the time because of my heart problem,” he said. “When I first came to this camp, I had no friends. Rhoads, who underwent open heart surgery at the Children’s Hospital when he was four days old, has come to Camp Lionheart since its inception six years ago. Penn State Health treated 10 of the 16 campers for their heart defects. Here, for one week every year, more than a dozen learn about their conditions from experts, form bonds with fellow survivors and take a break from the bullying, the surgeries and the fear, for a taste of summertime normalcy. Welcome to Camp Lionheart, Penn State Health Children’s Heart Group’s respite for kids fighting congenital heart defects. Instead, their conditions have turned into challenges they’re learning to live up to every day. All the campers, aged 12 to 18, and a few of the counselors are waging private wars against heart ailments that might have killed them. The feat, one that millions of kids perform every summer throughout the country, becomes a miracle when viewed in scale.
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