No. 17 • Vol. 5
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May 2019
Hackettstown Boy Battling Brain Cancer Gets Special Message from Sesame Street By Dawn M Chiossi Everyone is familiar with the PBS Classic Television Show, Sesame Street. For years, characters such as Ernie and Bert plus countless others, have been entertaining, inspiring and educating both boys and girls with quality television that is both enjoyable and enriching. It has both taught and stimulated the curiosity and intelligence of kids everywhere, striking a cord with them. Since the show began, for so many subsequent generations, the show is also synonymous with comfort. This is particularly true with seven-year-old Hackettstown resident, Henry Aulenbach. He might be just like any other boy out there: He loves Star Wars and riding his bike (without training wheels) and Sesame Street’s Bert. But, Aulenbach is much
more than your average seven-year-old. He is battling Medulloblastoma--a form of brain cancer. Going to the doctor because he was suffering from severe headaches and vomiting on January 5th, the Aulenbach family received the shock of their lives when their son was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Three days later, when he had surgery to remove it, he was diagnosed with brain cancer. “Henry’s first six weeks of treatments were 30 days of proton beam radiation from Monday through Friday with weekends off to the brain and spine once a week chemo treatment,” Mother Chrissie Aulenbach tells. “He is now in the middle of a one month break before beginning a six month course of heavy duty chemo for which he will be admitted to the
hospital for several days out of every month. The treatments have been very difficult,” she says, noting how Henry has experienced severe exhaustion, weakness, nausea, and pain.
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Treatments are slated to last until midfall. It didn’t take long for the public to rally around this courageous fighter and the whole Aulenbach family. Everyone is seeking Hope for Henry. From family and friends, to the community, to the GoFundMe page set up to help the family with expenses so they could concentrate fully on helping their son, Hope for Henry isn’t just the name of various accounts that people have made for him, it is so much more. “The family is no stranger to helping others,” states Randolph’s Stephanie Coleman, organizer of the GoFundMe Page. “Dave and Chrissie are the most positive people that you ever want to meet. Their positivity spreads all over the community--even from their kids.” As friends and former neighbors, Coleman relates that her kids grew up with the Aulenbach’s twin sons, who continued on page 2