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Caps for Sam - Fourth-grader fights tumor and supports hospital
DeKALB - Sam Ihm hasn't really had to talk about a surgery to remove a brain tumor.
His friends don't ask.
They want to know about the ski caps Ihm's family and friends are selling as a fund-raising program for Children's Memorial Hospital.
Caps 4 Sam is a project Sam's family is sponsoring to help raise money for brain-tumor research and treatment at the Chicago hospital.
Sam, a fourth-grader at St. Mary School in DeKalb, said he learned why he was feeling sick and what doctors at the hospital are going to do to make him better.
"They're just going to give me some medicine that makes me drowsy and eventually I'll fall asleep and they'll go through my skull and they're going to try to remove it without anything bad happening," he said.
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