Extreme Makeover Focuses on Child with Leukemia
America’s favorite television show, Extreme Makeover Home Edition’s latest episode focuses on a family living in Arkansas who is dealing with the fatal illness, leukemia. The episode, which is set to air this week, exposes audiences to the McCully family from Bigelow, Arkansas. Within the family is a ten-year-old boy named Job, who is living with leukemia, a cancer of the blood, and who serves as an inspiration to many.
Since his diagnosis, Job has undergone several surgeries, including a bone marrow and double lung transplant. However, through it all he has kept a positive attitude and has seemingly overcome the illness that can plague people and in some cases, quickly take their lives.
Behind the Illness
Reports claim that Job has been in and out of hospitals for years and in March 2008, paid what is hoped to have been his last visit. Although he still has to go in for periodical check-ups, the McCully family has been able to have Job live at home, which in their eyes is a miracle in itself after all he’s been through.
Though, the place the McCully’s call home could be partially to blame for Job’s health complications. The family’s home is supposedly moldy and outdated, with a leaking roof and walls infested with mildew. In 2006, Job’s lungs showed up with fungus on them, a fungus thought to be acquired from the mildew in the home. Since this time, the family has lived in constant fear that their home is making them sick and potentially creating more health problems for Job.
TV Show Hopes to Make a Difference
Ty Pennington and his team at Extreme Makeover are hoping that they can provide the McCully family with a home that will free them from any worry and stress. Job has already suffered a great deal with his treatments and the new home is meant to serve as a new beginning for the boy and his new life of health living. Hundreds of volunteers throughout the town are also helping with the building of the new home so Job and his hard-working family will have a comfortable and safe place to come home too.
