TREVOR SMITH

Sometimes the greatest distance traveled is accomplished in just a few steps. After Trevor Smith's surgery for brain cancer in November, 2002, at the age of thirteen he couldn't even get out of bed. When he finally took his first steps, it was with someone holding onto him. During his chemotherapy and radiation treatments he became too weak to stand up. When he took his first steps again, his balance was impaired and he had a limp (A side effect of chemotherapy). Facing a change to a new school during his treatments, he was told not to do it; the kids would laugh at him because he "walked funny". But he went to the new school anyway, deciding that if he could face up to cancer, he could face up to a few kids who might make fun of him.

Trevor Smith is a survivor. At the age of eighteen, he has become a forceful voice for the children of Idaho who are suffering from cancer.