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Jennings: Jimmy Fund gives kids a break from cancer treatment

FORT MYERS — Geoffrey Goose has skipped a lot of school lately. He’s been late with homework, he’s missing basketball practice, and yes, he’s taking drugs.

This damn cancer is really messing up his sophomore year.

Goose’s hair falls out in the shower. He gets headaches and worries they’re a sign of something worse. With chemotherapy pills, IVs and steroids, he’s taking something like nine different medications each day.

“I think I’m just kind of in a blur where I’ve been spacing out a lot,” he said. “People will ask me, ‘Are you OK? Are you thinking (about it)?