Bryce Williams

When an 8-year-old asks for a wheelchair in Disney World, you get concerned.

Bryce was a normal child, but he had begun to complain about pain and was limping for about 3 weeks. On a trip to Disney, he had gotten to a point that he could not walk. In December 2009, Bryce was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer.

Bryce was to have 18 rounds of chemotherapy over 10 months. Around the 3rd month of treatment, Bryce and his family had to make a difficult decision: amputation or prosthetics. After much discussion, they decided to have his leg amputated. The family did not want to put restrictions on what their son could do. Prosthetics came with restrictions of activity and they wanted their son to run, jump and do the things that boys do.

The staff at Wolfson Children’s Hospital helped get them through everything. And not just medicine. The staff was there to educate, to share and to be a shoulder to cry on, laugh with and get sprayed with silly string to get a smile.

Bryce is now doing great. And as the staff often says, “We hate to see you go. We really do. But we don’t want to see you back.”

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