A day at Camp COCO
By Debra Pressey
Sunday July 17, 2005
by Robin Scholz
Johnathon Eckert, 11, of Sidell travels down the zip line Tuesday at Camp COCO at Lake Bloomington. Camp COCO is a special one-week camp run by Southern Illinois Medical School each summer for children with cancer and blood disorders.
BLOOMINGTON – Clad in a bright red safety helmet, 11-year-old Johnathon Eckert of Sidell waits excitedly with a small group of fellow campers to try out a fun new adventure called ziplining.
"I hope I don't get sick on the way down," he confides. "I get nauseated sometimes."
Chemotherapy, unfortunately, can do that to you.
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