step of the way.
pathology had got the reports back, and it still That was my first encounter with Make-A-Wish,
had cancer. Things had been really looking and I remember lying in that hospital bed with
[WM] So how did you get connected with up until that point, so that’s when the turning my wheels spinning at like a hundred miles
the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and what about point hit. per hour thinking of what my wish would be.
Martin Guitars was so appealing to you that
they became your wish?
I have about three main hobbies, I love kayak
In order to qualify for the Make-A-Wish fishing, mountain biking, and playing music.
Foundation you have to go through some kind So, I was narrowing it down and thinking about
[Andrew] This first round of cancer was kind of treatment. We’d decided to get chemo, something that I could use for the rest of my
of broken up into two sections, so about a year and that was kind of frustrating. When I first life, and something that gets better with age,
and a half went by after that first diagnosis, and encountered Make-A-Wish and the story of and something I want to someday be my future
our doctors did a ‘wait and watch’ treatment. Make-A-Wish, I was lying in a hospital bed job. And that was a guitar, because I want to
I went every month to Tulsa to get scans and after I’d just had my pick line put in, which is someday be a worship leader when I get older,
physicals and all that and everything was the way they get chemo into your body for a that’s the goal anyway.
looking fine, but then another bump popped short period of time, because it only lasts about back up. It was a lymph node in the same spot six weeks. They said, “Since you’re going So that’s when I decided on Martin Guitars. I
and it was kind of doing the same thing the through this, and since you’ve had a chemo actually went into a guitar shop in Fayetteville,
first one did, so we decided to have surgery. treatment, that means you actually qualify for Arkansas called Sunrise Guitars. I probably
After surgery, we talked to the doctors after Make-A-Wish.” spent an hour out there and this guy just sat
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