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Children's Miracle Network Telethon Wraps up..

By: Jennifer Jackson
Updated: June 2, 2007
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CMNicon2007-06-03-1180844813.jpg The Children's Miracle Network Telethon Was A Success And Now Here is how the more than 340-thousand dollars will help a Child. Lights Camera Action...At Noon On Saturday Kathy Munoz Along With Jay Michael's Kicked Off This Year's Children's Miracle Network. CMN Hospitals Help Children Like 11-Year-Old Alcadio Barron With Fighting Cancer. Alcadio Barron/Miracle Child: It's A Type Of Cancer That's In Your Spinal Cord. It Just Basically Makes It Hard For Me To Stand Up Straight, Like I'm Suppose To. So I'm Uhm A Little Bit Hunchback. CMN Doesn't Just Help Children With Fighting Cancer But With Many Other Health Care Issues. Sharla Adam/Director Of CMN: For The Chemotherapy That We Have, Each Month We Treat 50 Kids To Just Scraps, And Cuts And Bruises. To Trauma Typically Resulting From A Car Crash. Money Raised From Saturday's Telethon Stays Right Here In San Angelo To Help Children With Treatment. Alcadio Barron/Miracle Child: Our Job Is To Help These Children By Purchasing Equipment, With Real Critical Equipment To Items That Make A Child's Stay A Little More Comfortable, For Every Department That Might Treat A Child. So It's Not Just For The Pediatrics, Which Is Really Important, And The NICU, But Also For Surgery, And Air Med One. Sharla Adam/Director Of CMN: I Basically Look On The Bright Side, Looking At All The Nurses, And Hopefully They'll Help Me. For Alcadio His Condition Is Terminal But He Says He Has Hope For The Future As Long As People Continue To Pledge Money To Children's Miracle Network. Alcadio Barron/Miracle Child: Just Uhm Just Help Us Kids, Out...

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