Team RPDS supports student during recent walk

Posted on December 10, 2012 By Editor Junior Residents

Pictured: Layla (center) with her RPDS teacher Deana Green (right) and assistant teacher Audra Keller (left) Photo from Riverside Presbyterian Day School)

Team RPDS, a group from Riverside Presbyterian Day School, joined the “Team Walking with Layla” during the recent Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night Walk.
Layla is an RPDS PreK-3 student who is a Leukemia survivor. She was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) when she was just 13 months old. Treatments covered a more than two-year timeframe with many hospital visits, procedures, clinic days and multiple chemotherapies. She is currently in remission with a bright outlook for the future and a complete cure if everything remains as it is for the next two years.
More than 45 members of the Riverside family — including students, parents, alumni, faculty, administrators and friends of RPDS — turned out to support Layla, raise funds and awareness for LLS, and get some exercise.
“It was a night of hope and perspective,” said Jennifer Sherlock, an RPDS PreK-4 assistant teacher. “I was so glad to be a part of it.”