Truckers near and far support ill girl

A man living in Michigan who is also a trucker has a four-year-old daughter fighting an extraordinarily serious and grave disease.

This summer Kayleigh Adams was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, an often fatal disease in which the treatment requires multiple rounds of chemotherapy. While her doctors are attempting to ultimately heal their very sick patient, the medicine is both physically taxing as well as extremely expensive.

Kayleigh’s dad, Billy Williams, has been a longtime member of an online community of truckers. After Kayleigh’s diagnosis, he reached out to his friends on Facebook asking for their support in the form of well wishes and prayers.

But the trucking community has provided much more than that. From all around the world, truckers are rallying behind Kayleigh as she seeks treatment and undergoes a difficult medical journey. Truckers are indeed sending their prayers and good thoughts, but drivers from as far away as Australia are making donations as well, including one driver in particular who is donating three cents to Kayleigh’s treatment for every mile he drives.

In addition, these drivers are sending private messages of hope as well as pictures that are intended to brighten Kayleigh’s day and inspire hope for her parents as she battles this illness.

In this day and age, with our country and the world as a whole so heavily divided on so many issues, it’s a beautiful thing when we can all come together to support someone so innocent and in need of our help. Leave it to the trucking community to show the rest of the world how it should be done.