Extreme Makeover Home Edition
KidsChairs is proud to have been a
part of Extreme Makeover Home Edition
Our chairs
were featured in the Dollhouse room
Shawna Farina grew up watching her
young 29-year-old mother battle with breast cancer. Ever
since then, with increased knowledge and commitment,
Shawna has dedicated her life to providing awareness,
information and funding to breast cancer by organizing
Relay for Life Walks in honor of her mother and becoming
an active member of the American Cancer society. Three
weeks before her 26th birthday, doctors confirmed what
she had long feared -- that she too had breast cancer.
Despite undergoing chemo-treatments, radiation,
bi-lateral mastectomy and even total hysterectomy, this
remarkable woman has put on a strong face for her
husband and three children and continues to participate
in her part-time job, dedicating her time to Relay for
Life, and even remaining a Brownie Troop leader for her
two daughters. In the past five years Shawna has raised
over $449,000 for Relay for Life, including over $70,000
in the past year alone while undergoing treatments for
her own cancer.
Despite her success in amassing funds for breast cancer,
the Farina family's dreams of fixing up the old
farmhouse are no longer plausible due to Shawna's
increasing medical bills. The house contains no
insulation for the long and cold winters, has a
make-shift shower in their single bathroom and is
missing three doors to the bedrooms. Now, with the help
of Ty and the design team of EM:HE, the Farina
family will finally have a home they truly deserve, one
in which Shawna can watch her children grow up,
undefeated by her illness.
While TV and the designers, local builder Kerstiens
Homes & Designs of Jasper, IN and hundreds of volunteers
and workers are rebuilding their home, the Farina family
will go on vacation to Walt Disney World.
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