FAIRBURN, Ga. — Several organizations came together to surprise a boy with terminal cancer with his dream tree house Friday afternoon.
Reese Dodson, 9, doesn’t get out much, but has always dreamed of having his own tree house, so the community came together to make it happen.
Reese saw it for the first time Friday. Because Reese is losing his vision, the community rushed the process to complete it while he could still see.
The special tree house just outside his home in Fairburn is decked out with a 55-inch flat-screen TV, bunk beds, air conditioning and more. It's also full of UGA gear.
“It means a lot. I always say if any kid ever deserved all this attention and stuff besides him having cancer it'd be him, definitely, so it means a lot for him to have his own little place,” his mother, Jesse Dodson, said.
The Cure Project teamed up with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Atlanta Treehouse Builders and others to make the tree house a reality.
Travis Olive, with Cure Project, said his daughter survived cancer and he wanted to give back.
“He gets to have something positive, something special in his life before he has to go deal with and battle this vicious thing called cancer,” Olive said.
Reese and his family are overwhelmed by the gesture.
“You don't know how to be. I don't know how to be, you know. All I know is I have happy tears every day just to see everybody that has come through for him and what they've done for him, it's amazing,” Jesse Dodson said.
Reese says he plans to spend every day in his tree house before his next surgery Nov. 10.
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