Posted on: 10:36 pm, May 21, 2012, by Gia Vang, updated on: 11:26am, May 22, 2012
KNOB NOSTER, Mo. ?? A limousine pulls up in front of Knob Noster Middle school just in time for a prom. Ceaira Walker climbs out wearing a light blue tool dress. Her date is in hand and they walk down a makeshift red carpet toward the school cafeteria.
Walker captures the moments at prom with a camera, dances with her boyfriend and does a lot of crying. That?s because for the first time in less than two years, she feels like a normal teenager.
?Thank you,? Walker said to FOX 4 when asked about what she?d like to say to the public.
Walker was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer in late 2010.? It was stage four, and the prognosis wasn?t good, so she made the choice to stop treatment.? She said she wanted to enjoy being like any other girl her age, anticipating events like prom.
This prom themed ?Never Give Up? is one the school organized in less than a week.
?When you see her day in and day out and knowing that this was a request that she had, and just playing a small part in being able to make that come true, it?s going to be overwhelming,? said Brett Hieronymous, Knob Noster Middle School?s principal.
But the school didn?t do it alone. In fact, Hieronymous said they not only got help from local businesses with the food spread, or the decorations, or even, the glamorous dresses some of the girls are wearing. He said, they got donations from as far-reaching as a towns in Kansas.
?Very blessed that there is such wonderful giving people, with good hearts,? said Shantell Swearengin, Walker?s mother.
Walker?s friends said they are repaying her in a small way for the way she has touched their hearts in a big way.
Knob Noster Middle School created an award to honor Walker. It?s called the Ceaira Walker Award. It will go to her this year and in the future, it will be given to any student who shows courage in trying times.
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