Cody Stephens
Keep him in your thoughts

On Monday October 19, 2009, Cody was admitted to KU Medical Center. Cody has relapsed and the AML Leukemia has returned. Cody will be in the hospital for 30 days, return home for 14 then be re-admitted to KU for 100 days at which point he will receive a bone marrow transplant. While the cancer return is bad news, the positive side is that there are 1000 bone marrow matches for Cody. A few things.... Cody and his family will be spending Christmas in the hospital this year. I am taking donations of gift cards to places like Wal-Mart, target, JCPenny etc so that I can take them to Toni at which time she will see that Cody and his sisters have gifts for Christmas. While I know that our economy is not the greatest, if you can even donate a gift card of $5, that will help. We need to keep everyone's spirits high. Let's not let this holiday season go by without helping out one of our rodeo families.

Here is all of the information needed:

To donate a gift card, please send it to:

Ann Brumback

Rodeo Attitude Sports Medicine

2518 Lucas Street #2

Muscatine, IA 52761

To contact Cody:

Richard Cody Stephens

Room 4109

University of Kansas Medical Center

3901 Rainbow Blvd.

Kansas City, Kansas 66103

Codys Cell phone:

417-489-6441

I will be sending updates on Cody as they become available from Toni. She and I will be talking a few times a week. Please remember that Cody can only have cards, balloons, phone calls, and stuffed animals. If you can visit Cody, please do so as keeping his spirits high is great for his recovery. if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 563-506-5208...

One last thing, please pass this information along to anyone you know..and PRAYERS are always welcome and needed.

Ann BrumbackDirector, Rodeo Attitude Sports Medicine