DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Every day, 47 children are diagnosed with cancer in the United States. The WSB community is coming together to support kids with cancer at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Channel 2′s Linda Stouffer showed how the annual 95.5 WSB Care-a-Thon makes a difference.
The Lott family started a special trip to travel to all 50 states around the country starting in 2020, but in 2022, they told Channel 2 Action News they had to “slam the breaks” on those plans after just 36 states.
That’s when their six-year-old daughter, Linnea, was diagnosed with cancer.
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Linnea’s parents told Stouffer that she was a happy little kid, traveling with her family around the nation until her dad said she got a bump on her forehead.
“It was kind of unusual, we had a biopsy,” David Lott said. “She was diagnosed with leukemia.”
“We learned that Linnea had …