Wish granted: Teen leukemia patient takes solace on his farm
4:22 p.m. Thursday, July 3, 2008
In his fifteen years on earth, Dylan Crabb has felt more pain than most people three or four times his age.
Back in 2006, he nearly lost his life to leukemia when he was only thirteen.
"Dylan has been faced with death. I think living is what he wants to do, and he wants to do it all the right ways," his mother, Lori, said.
Lori says the life Dylan wants more than anything else is one on the family's farm, which most kids his age would never dream of.
On Wednesday Dylan's dream came true. The Children's Wish Foundation helped deliver the one thing that Dylan needed to become a dairy farmer, cows, which he named Moon and Star.
"It's not like a trip, you get it one time, and you're done. You've got these cows here for a long time and you get to know them. You're with them every day, it's not like anything else," Dylan said.
"It's just a great day. He's happy. We're all happy. He's milking cows, that's his dream," Lori said.
In the past two years, Dylan says he has spent a lot of time in hospital beds, and he says the one thing that's helped him get through it all is knowing he gets to come home to his farm.
"I just like being out here mostly, getting in there and being with the cows and chasing them around. Watching, one of my favorite parts, is watching the calves when they get born. Those little guys, so small, and they try to stand up," he said.
And as Dylan prepares to make another stand against leukemia, Moon and Star will be in this thoughts to help guide him home.
Dylan will be going in for a bone marrow transplant sometime this month, and he says the first thing he plans to do once he gets home is milk his cows.
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