UF’s Streetlight program gives teens with chronic illnesses what they sometimes need most, a friend
The scar cuts across her knee and thigh, visible when Jackie Morse stretches her slender legs out on the hospital bed. Like the scarf the 16-year-old carefully ties around her head, it’s a not-so-subtle reminder of the bone cancer she was diagnosed with last summer.
But today in Jackie’s room on Unit 42 in Shands at UF, the subject is painting — her nails and a ceramic mug she is decorating for an auction. Not cancer.