Eight-year-old U.S. girl with leukemia selling pink lemonade to cover her medical bills

Eight-year-old Zaraya Blunt is battling her cancer diagnosis from behind a lemonade stand.

Knowing that her family is faced with crippling medical bills to treat her leukemia, the brave Iowa girl is selling pink lemonade to chip in.

“I’m doing this so I can fight my lymonia,” Zaraya told KCCI, a local news station in Des Moines.

The little girl was diagnosed with leukemia last March, according to the report. She’s working through her third round of chemotherapy.

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It was in between all of her hospital appointments that Zaraya and her grandma thought of how she could help her family with finances.

“All those days in Blank Children’s Hospital, she got bored,” Zaraya’s grandma, Nikki Collins, told KCCI.

“She wanted lemonade. Every time she ordered food, she wanted lemonade.”

The good news is Zaraya’s family says her prognosis is positive.

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