A Jackson-Milton high school student who was diagnosed with cancer just before Christmas of 2024 has attended an oncology prom event in Cleveland with his best friend.
21 News caught up with Katie DeSavigny, the mother of Jackson-Milton student Brayden Greathouse. Greathouse was diagnosed with B Cell Leukemia just days before Christmas of 2024.
According to Cleveland Clinic, B Cell Leukemia is a type of blood cancer in the lymphatic system where abnormal lymphocites multiply in to form tumors.
Greathouse's home school district is Jackson-Milton, but he attends the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center (MCCTC) for culinary. He is also a wrestler and football player for Jackson-Milton and he helps coach Jackson-Milton's youth football team with his uncle.
While Greathouse could not attend MCCTC or Jackson-Milton's prom events due to medical concerns, he did attend an oncology prom event organized by Akron Children's Hospital and other children's hospitals in Cleveland on Friday, June 13.
Greathouse attended the prom with his best friend Jaden Baumgartner. You may recall Baumgartner as the Jackson-Milton student who took to social media looking for anyone who had a dress that matched the one her late mother Amy Hambrick wore to prom in high school.
She wound up getting that exact dress after one woman who recognized it still had it from her own prom several years ago.
You can read much more about Baumgartner's story here.