Skip to main content

Devon Still Cooks Steak Dinner For Daughter Leah, 9, To Celebrate 5 Years Since She Beat Cancer

Devon Still Cooks Steak Dinner For Daughter Leah, 9, To Celebrate 5 Years Since She Beat Cancer
NewsColony

For over a year, fans prayed for Leah Still as she fought stage 4 neuroblastoma. Her dad, Devon Still, put football on the backburner to care for her. Now, they can celebrate a very happy milestone: Leah has been cancer-free since 2015!

In 2014, Leah Still’s odds of living were only 50-50 after being diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma. Fast forward to 2020, and the nine year old is celebrating her fifth cancer-free anniversary by the side of her dad Devon Still, 30, who had been his daughter’s rock throughout her once uncertain road to recovery. This year’s celebration was a bit different, given California’s stay-at-home order amid the coronavirus outbreak — so Devon improvised. The retired NFL player “put on” his chef hat and delivered a Michelin star-worthy meal for little Leah, and filmed her adorable reaction for an Instagram video shared on March 26!

Devon’s daughter smiled wide at the dinner table as her loving dad panned out to the gourmet courses he prepared: juicy steak, grilled asparagus, and lobster mac and cheese! “When your daughter wants to go out to the steakhouse to celebrate, but we locked down on quarantine. You know you just got to whip out that chef hat,” Devon said in the video, much to his daughter’s amusement. Devon proudly added, “Yeah, this is better than any steak house!”

This was the most important anniversary yet. “Once your child reaches the five-year mark in their cancer battle, the chances of the cancer coming back are basically slim to none,” Devon told TODAY on March 25. He could barely imagine throwing such a celebration after first learning the devastating news of Leah’s rare diagnosis in June of 2014, when she was only four years old. At stage 4, the cancer — which stems from early nerve cells — has “spread to distant sites such as distant lymph nodes, bone, liver, skin, bone marrow, or other organs,” according to the American Cancer Society.

“A day like this seemed so far away when we first got that diagnosis,” Devon told TODAY. “There’s been a lot of ups and downs along the journey and times you question if you’re ever gonna make it to this point, so it’s just a blessing.” Leah added that she was happy that there are “no more hospitals and needles” in her life! Devon announced that his daughter was cancer-free in Dec. 2015, and in 2017, he had another announcement: his retirement from the NFL. The former Cincinnati Bengals player is now focused on fighting cancer with his Still Strong Foundation, and raising his children! In addition to Leah, Devon is also raising his 7-month-old daughter Arya Marie with his wife, Asha Joyce.

Source : Hollywood Life | NewsColony: Entertainment News

The post Devon Still Cooks Steak Dinner For Daughter Leah, 9, To Celebrate 5 Years Since She Beat Cancer appeared first on NewsColony.



from WordPress https://ift.tt/3apH4DV
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Volunteers book hotel room for homeless man with SingapoRediscovers vouchers

NewsColony Volunteers book hotel room for homeless man with SingapoRediscovers vouchers © The Independent Singapore Singapore — A group of volunteers from the Mummy Yummy Singapore welfare organisation donated their SingapoRediscovers Vouchers to book a hotel room for a homeless man. The man, who was identified as Jayden, did not have a place to live while waiting for the Housing Board (HDB) to allocate him a rental flat. In a Facebook post on Mummy Yummy Singapore’s page on Wednesday (Dec 16), the volunteers said: “We used our $100 Rediscover Singapore vouchers to redeem hotel stay for him and successfully booked 9 days worth of stay at 3 days per voucher.” They added that they were unable to book a longer stay because of higher hotel rates over Christmas and New Year. The volunteers hoped that they would be able to bridge Jayden’s stay until he got a flat. “Thanks our government for giving us these vouchers which in return we can put them to good use for people in need,” th...
Post a Comment
Read more

Disabled people are still vulnerable, even as COVID-19 normalizes their ‘special’ needs

Disabled people are still vulnerable, even as COVID-19 normalizes their ‘special’ needs NewsColony Perhaps it’s appropriate that public notices of the COVID-19 crisis began as an ableist cruelty. Health officials assured the nation that only the elderly and those with chronic health conditions would be seriously affected; most Americans (i.e., the normal people) would have only mild symptoms and be fine. x A friendly reminder: people who will be high-risk patients if we get coronavirus can hear you when you reassure everyone we’re the only ones who might die. — Alexandra Brodsky (@azbrodsky) February 29, 2020 Soon after the announcement of those assurances, the likelihood of high-risk people surviving was further limited by the people more likely to be fine. Shopping frenzies cleared stores of essential supplies needed everyday by many disabled people, like thermometers, hand wipes, masks, and IV infusion supplies. Accustomed to their needs ...
Post a Comment
Read more

JANE FRYER: The judo master who made me the fall guy… aged 97!

NewsColony JANE FRYER: The judo master who made me the fall guy… aged 97! Jane Fryer is pictured above with Jack Hearn. ‘See, I’d get you round the neck and press on your Adam’s apple,’ he grins, silver moustache bobbing, white teeth flashing. ‘ And if I carried on with that, you’d be dead in a minute’ There is a startling moment in Jack Hearn’s extremely spick and span kitchen, when I’m standing between his trophy table and the wall and he’s telling me how he could finish me off with his huge, bearlike paws. ‘See, I’d get you round the neck and press on your Adam’s apple,’ he grins, silver moustache bobbing, white teeth flashing. ‘ And if I carried on with that, you’d be dead in a minute.’ We have already had a lively discussion about whether he should, or should not, throw me over one of his surprisingly wide shoulders on to his beautifully vacuumed living room floor. ‘I could throw you, of course I could! But I won’t,’ he says.  ‘It’s not fair — you don’t know...
Post a Comment
Read more