Nathaniel Ross delivers toys his family donated to patients at Cardon Children's.
Nathaniel Ross of Mesa turned 11 years old on Wednesday. To celebrate, he brought more than $600 worth of toys to donate to Cardon Children’s Medical Center.
Nathaniel has been a patient at Cardon Children’s. We first ran into him in when staff multimedia journalist Vicki Balint did a series of video stories about eosinophilic esophagitis (EE), a disorder that causes severe allergies to food, in April 2010.
Nathaniel decided that for his birthday this year he wanted to raise money to bring a little joy to others. He was especially interested in buying toys for older kids like himself.
He and his family got great deals at Black Friday and other sales and were able to bring four carts worth of toys to be placed in the toy closet in the oncology area on the seventh floor.
Here’s more about EE, picky eaters, problem eaters, feeding issues and feeding therapy:
