10/27/2025
Today, we’d like to honor another amazing youth in our area. Kelson Hill was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma at the age of six. A soft tissue tumor that popped up rapidly in his neck. He went through 43 rounds of chemo and 28 rounds of radiation before ringing the bell in August 2015. Kelson’s treatment was very hard on his little body, and there were times when his family didn’t know if he would be able to fight through both the chemo and radiation together. He finished treatment weighing a whopping 30 pounds.
He has been in remission for 11 years and still deals with the lasting effects of his treatment. Kelson has continued to push through the challenges and is grateful for survival. While Kelson spent many hours in a hospital room, he found a new love for drawing, especially Mario. He continues to draw and is always improving and has now gotten into digital art and coding. His dream is to create a video game that may one day influence and help someone the way Mario has for him. Just this month he created and released a short video game for people to play that he has been working on. He is a senior at Enterprise high school and this year’s yearbook editor, and has big plans for his future. Kelson has a big heart, and since treatment, he has continued to help lift others up when life seems to get in the way, breathing belief and hope to them that anything is possible. Finding his incredible talent for drawing during a dark time is very inspiring. Thanks for sharing Kelson!
