Day Child Pizza Hut fundraiser set for Thursday

Havre Daily News staff

Treatment in Seattle of an aggressive cancer is going well for a local man, his wife said, and family and friends have set another fundraiser to help the family pay for ongoing costs.

Waylon Day Child, 35, is undergoing treatment of an aggressive form of lymphoma. He has insurance and the Rocky Boy Health Department has helped with expenses but costs continue to mount, his family said.

Pizza Hut will hold a fundraiser Thursday. If customers say they are donating to Day Child, 20 percent of the purchase price will go to his account.

Day Child, an employee of Rainbow Irrigation, was diagnosed last spring and flown to Seattle for treatment.

His mother, Noreen Day Child, said in July that the cancer was spreading from his chest down to his legs and was attacking his liver and and lungs as well.

Waylon's wife, Terissa Day Child, said their children Jalissa, 11, and Waylon Jr., 1, are in Seattle with them and Noreen Day Child joined them and watches Waylon Jr. while Jalissa is in school and Terissa is at the hospital with Waylons Sr.

Their other children, Tyra, 13, and Kalissa, 4, have not been able to go to Seattle but the family visits them via video chat, Terissa Day Child said.

She said that in the last few weeks Waylon Sr. has been in chemotherapy and radiation getting him ready to have his stem cells transplanted back into his body. She said doctors are hopeful the family can return to Montana about four weeks after the transplant, but more tests might be needed.

"So this will hopefully be the last of everything" she said.