Sep 28, 2007 7:47 am US/Central
Texas Boy's Mission: Cross Out Cancer
by Teresa Frosini
(CBS 11 News)
Nick McCollum began making wooden crosses last fall to give as Christmas gifts.
When his grandmother was diagnosed with cancer in February, he found a new reason to make his crosses.
"My grandson got real upset about it and he ran out the back door and came back in a few minutes with a wooden cross that he had made and said he was going to call it 'Cross Out Cancer.' "
The 9-year-old's grandmother, Cherly McCollum, doesn't have insurance and faces more than $70,000 of medical bills the family must pay.
Nick spends all his free time making crosses to sell online.
"It feels good to know that I'm doing something good for someone else," he says.
During the past few months he has made and sold more than 60 of the wooden crosses and generated about $300.
"It's going good," he mother, Kim Sperry says. "He started out with just friends and family and then a few emails. It's gone to Tennessee, Oregon, a few in East Texas and New York and South Carolina."
The bond between the boy and his grandmother is very special, they admit.
"We're best friends so we always take care of each other," he says.
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