Addison McWherter and her parents, Adriana and David, have stayed at Family House off and on since Addie was diagnosed with high-risk stage 4 neuroblastoma last September. When Addison was diagnosed after months of four different doctors, two emergency room visits, and lots of waiting and confusion, Adriana said \u201cher heart just sank.\u201d As soon as she was diagnosed, Addison and her family traveled from Salinas to UCSF Benioff Children\u2019s Hospital to start treatment immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe heard about Family House as soon as we got to UCSF, and it was the biggest weight off our shoulders to have somewhere to stay,\u201d Adriana said. \u201cIt feels like home \u2013 it\u2019s the comfort, the support, having someone to chat with during scary times.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through chemotherapy, tumor removals, two bone marrow transplants, radiation and immunotherapy, Addie has stayed her spunky self. Our front desk staff are some of her best friends, and when asked what she likes about staying at Family House, she said \u201cI feel safe here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addison recently participated in the Family House Fashion Show with Old Navy, strutting her stuff on the runway (with her mom, too!). \u201cShe loves it here,\u201d Adriana said. \u201cWhen she\u2019s at home, she\u2019s constantly asking when we\u2019ll be going back to Family House.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addison is currently on an immunotherapy treatment and doing well. \u201cShe\u2019s a tremendous fighter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we\u2019re sharing stories of fighters like Addison and their families staying with us. Support kids and families like Addison\u2019s this September.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":17445,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"article-category":[],"article-tag":[],"article-type":[394],"class_list":["post-17437","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article-type-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyhouseinc.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/17437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyhouseinc.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyhouseinc.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyhouseinc.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyhouseinc.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyhouseinc.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=17437"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyhouseinc.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=17437"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyhouseinc.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=17437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}