10-year-old cancer survivor becomes honorary member of the New York Rangers
NY Post
Ten-year-old Sonya Luvis never imagined she’d get a chance to ice skate with hockey legends — she’s just happy to be alive.
The young cancer survivor was celebrated for her inspiring fighting spirit on Tuesday when she was presented with an honorary jersey from the New York Rangers at the local Ronald McDonald House’s 30th annual Skate With the Greats event.
But it wasn’t always smooth skating.
The grade-schooler was first diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma, a rare type of childhood cancer, in August 2021, after her mother, Maria, 34, and father, Marlon, 34, noticed a tennis ball-size lump on her stomach.
She was 7 years old and had the biggest tumor of its type that doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia had ever treated.
But the first piece of heartbreaking news that Sonya remembers is realizing she would have to shave her long curly locks when she started her first round of chemotherapy.
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