February, 2014 i | Page 22

WRITING Be Strong... Stay Strong! Tatum Parker Founder of Tatum’s Bags of Fun. The bag meant so much to me and to my family. We absolutely decided to start a Bags of Fun in Indiana! We started Tatum’s in my right leg. I went though a year of chemo treatments and delivered my treatments and I was cancer-free. Unfortunately eighteen months later I was rediagnosed with Ewing’s time it was in my right lung. I went through another year of chemo Bag of Fun from the Gabby Krause Foundation. The bag had so many fun activities to help keep me busy during my time in the Bags of Fun. The Bag of Fun is meant to help entertain the kids during their long treatments by giving them things they can do in their hospital beds. When you go through chemo you’re tired and sick and you don’t want to leave your bed. So the Bag of Fun gives them fun things to do in their bed. We also hope to inspire hope by sharing my story of success against cancer. Be Strong...Stay Strong! TATUM WAYS TO CONNECT TO TATUM 22 Inspired