TAMPA (WFLA) — A 10-year-old boy from Hillsborough County used his voice to show his appreciation for the hospital staff that helped him through his battle with cancer.
The young patient wrote and performed his song before leaving Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg.
“This is my goodbye song to everyone who cared for me,” Elijah Cephas sings in his song of gratitude, joy and hope.
Elijah’s Song could be heard throughout the cancer unit at the bell ringing ceremony marking the end of his treatment on May 24.
Doctors diagnosed the 10-year-old boy with an aggressive type of bone cancer after a painful lump on his right knee wouldn’t go away last September.
“When someone sits there and says your stomach drops, that was actually the first time you have that feeling,” Elijah’s mom Sheena Cephas said.
Source: Elijah’s Song: Pediatric cancer patient performs song of gratitude for hospital staff