Building Strength One Lego Brick at a Time: Ezra’s Pediatric Cancer Story

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Story Summary

For the Schaefer family, Lego bricks have been a constant source of connection, creativity and fun.

It started with dad, Daniel Schaefer, who grew up playing with action figures and the multicolored building bricks. Daniel never outgrew his Lego hobby and passed it on to his sons, Zeke and Ezra. They spend hours together building sets and creating new combinations.

But when Ezra was just 7 years old, Lego became a source of comfort and camaraderie during his cancer treatment for stage 4 rhabdomyosarcoma.

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