In less than a week, Donal Fleming will take a seat along the Atlanta St. Patrick’s parade route in midtown and get his head shaved, a ritual born in 1999 to raise funds for childhood cancer research.
The Dunwoody father of two has been doing this now since 2003, the year after his daughter officially completed treatment for Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare soft tissue cancer that is found in children.
Ciara Fleming was just 23 months old when her mother, Karen Leonard, noticed blood in the toddler’s diaper and doctors made the shocking discovery. Continue reading at the AJC
