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MILWAUKEE -- There's a new football team in the area, and the players are looking for support - not so much for themselves, but for the young lives they're working to help save.
The Milwaukee Hurricanes are a fledgling semi-pro football team -- part of the Ironman League. Their first regular season game isn't until June 9th, but the Hurricanes are already making a positive impact.
"Meridith has been undergoing treatment at Children's Hospital since July. She is being treated for leukemia, and she has high-risk leukemia, so we're in the hospital quite a bit," Meridith's mother, Jen Bert said.
When Hurricanes General Manager Michael King heard about little Meridith's plight, he decided to reach out to the family. The King family now has designated games on June 23rd and July 14th at Hart Park in Wauwatosa. Those games will be cancer benefit games.
Michael lost both parents to cancer, seven months apart.
"It's amazing just how willing and how compassionate they are doing this whole thing, and setting it up. It's very impressive," Meridith's father, Jason Bert said.
Cancer brought the families together. Michael and Debbie King's 14-year-old daughter, Denae was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma last year. Denae was in remission, but she relapsed last February.
"I met Meridith in the hospital when Denae was going through it, and we bonded together, and we have been talking and sending emails and we became like, a little family. We adopted her and we love her," King said.
Nobody knows how devastating and helpless it feels to have a child with cancer, than a mother.
"Initially you are just in shock. You are a little bit in denial. You feel like you are going to wake up, like it is a big nightmare and you are going to wake up one day and it's not going to be real. You lean on friends, family and God and you get through it, but she is a special little girl," Bert said.
"It is a terrifying experience. Going for a physical and then coming out with the results that your child has cancer. It's a very scary thing to go through," Debbie King, Denae's mother said.
The Bert family will be the first to say that the Kings and the Milwaukee Hurricanes have been a blessing during their trial.
"There just aren't words. It feels so good to have all the support and it helps you get through," Jen Bert said.
While the Milwaukee Hurricanes get set to do battle on the football field, two families, drawn together by adversity, continue their battles for their sick daughters.
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