Earlier today the Chicago Bears announced that Grayslake North High School’s Fiona Campbell is the 2022 recipient of the Collin Wehr Scholarship. The scholarship program provides financial assistance to young cancer survivors or to the siblings of children who lost their battle with pediatric cancer.
Fiona was born with neurofibromatosis (NF1), a genetic disorder of the nervous system where tumors grow on nerve endings. She has bilateral optic gliomas, which is a tumor around the optic nerve, and also a brain tumor, both of which are stable. She has been on chemotherapy three different times and had a major surgery in 2017 to remove tumors from her back and spine.