{"id":16300,"date":"2015-06-22T19:56:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T19:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/devon-stills-daughter-leah-going-home-from-hospital\/"},"modified":"2015-06-22T19:56:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T19:56:06","slug":"devon-stills-daughter-leah-going-home-from-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/devon-stills-daughter-leah-going-home-from-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon Still\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s daughter Leah going home from hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last night in the hospital so leah wanted to try and do an all nighter for the last time a\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 https:\/\/t.co\/xuwcMSaqV7 pic.twitter.com\/yOem7Q0aoM<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Devon Still (@Dev_Still71) June 22, 2015<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Devon Still\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four-year-old daugher, Leah Still, is returning home from the hospital after the latest round in her year-long battle with pediatric nerve cell cancer and complications from her treatment. <\/p>\n

The Cincinatti Bengals player posted a picture from the hospital on Twitter, showing the little girl in good spirits posing for the camera and showing off her candy-stained tongue.<\/p>\n

Leah Still was diagnosed in June of 2014 with a cancer that usually affects children under five years old, called neuroblastoma, and given a 50-50 chance of survival. Still has been publicly documenting the family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s journey on social media and campaigning with his daughter for pediatric cancer research. He took time out from the football season to be there during Leah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s medical treatments. Sales of Devon Still jerseys helped the team raise more than $1 million that it donated for cancer care. Celebrities like Ellen Degeneres have also donated to the cause.<\/p>\n

Leah Still received chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant to treat the cancer, which doctors say were successful. She has been in remission since March.<\/p>\n

But on May 29th, Still asked for prayers that Leah would pull through a complication from her stem cell treatment, called veno-occlusive disease or VOD, which can be fatal. She remained in the hospital battling the disease, which is known to occur after stem cell or bone marrow transplants and blocks blood flow to the liver. When VOD occurs after a stem cell transplant, it may take a several weeks to resolve.<\/p>\n

Leah, who wrote a children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book with her dad about her journey through cancer called, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am Leah Strong,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d also made a video for Instagram after receiving the news that she was well enough to go home.<\/p>\n

Still and his daughter will presented with the Perseverance Award at the ESPYs next month. The award is given in honor of late former college basketball coach Jim Valvano, who began a foundation to raise money to fight cancer before he succumbed to the disease in 1993. <\/p>\n

Now that his daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health is improving, Still has begun training practice with the Bengals for the upcoming NFL season. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153My daughter has won the battle against cancer, and I know she wants me to go out and prove myself on the football field, so that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m working towards,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Still told CBS Cincinnati affiliate WKRC.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You watch these kids fight for their life: They keep a smile on their face; they never give up; they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re resilient. And if you ever watch that \u00e2\u20ac\u201d like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve watched that for a year \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it changes everything about you,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he told the station. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It lets you know you have to make the most of every opportunity that you have. I have an opportunity right now to make this Bengals team and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to try to do it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night in the hospital so leah wanted to try and do an all nighter for the last time a\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 https:\/\/t.co\/xuwcMSaqV7 pic.twitter.com\/yOem7Q0aoM \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Devon Still (@Dev_Still71) June 22, 2015 Devon Still\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four-year-old daugher, Leah Still, is returning home from the hospital after the latest round in her year-long battle with pediatric nerve cell cancer and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}