ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, May 2, 1996 TAG: 9605020065
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-6 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: BEDFORD
SOURCE: Joanne Poindexter
Activities to help raise money for Kyndall Gail Draper, a 2-year-old who has been diagnosed with neuroblastoma cancer, are planned for Saturday.
Friends of the Draper family and the Bedford Jaycees are planning the events to help Kyndall's parents, Warren "Bo" and Lisa Draper, with living expenses in North Carolina while their daughter undergoes and recuperates from a bone marrow transplant at Duke University.
Yard and bake sales will be held at 1600 Shady Knoll Ave., starting at 8 a.m. Saturday. A silent auction, featuring items donated by Bedford merchants, will be held at the Bedford Country Club at 2 p.m. That night, from 7 until midnight, a dance will be held at the country club. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door.
Doctors discovered a tumor on Kyndall's kidney last October. After months of chemotherapy at the University of Virginia, doctors removed one of her kidneys and, they hope, most of the cancer. However, Kyndall still must undergo radiation treatments, and she'll need the bone marrow transplant, which is scheduled for late June.
Although many of Kyndall's medical bills have been paid by her father's insurance through his job at R.R. Donnelley & Sons Inc., estimates for the transplant are between $100,000 and $200,000 and it's unclear how much insurance will cover.
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