Texas Restaurant Opens Early For Three-Year-Old Girl With Cancer

A three-year-old girl who has cancer got her wish to have brunch with her family at their favorite restaurant. Adelaide Stanley was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia last July and has been mostly confined to her home while she receives treatment.

"We've had to put her in a bubble, pretty much," Adelaide's mom, Vanlan Nguyen, told Fox News.

Home confinement has been tough on Adelaide because she is too young to understand how risky it can be to go out in public with a weakened immune system.

One day, when Adelaide was in the car with her parents, they drove past J. Wilson's in Beaumont, Texas, and she asked if they could go eat brunch there like they used before she got sick.

"That was so hard," Nguyen said. "[Adelaide's father] said, 'Baby, when you're not sick anymore, when you get better, we can go eat there.'"

Nguyen told the story to a co-worker who reached out to the owner of the restaurant to see if there was anything they could do.

The owner remembered the family and said that the staff missed seeing them.

"They used to come to brunch all the time," the restaurant's owner John Wilson said. "She got diagnosed about [a] year ago, and they've been in confinement for a while."

Wilson planned a special brunch for the family. He decided to open early for the Nguyens and made sure to disinfect the area to ensure Adelaide wouldn't get sick. They even decorated the table with a pink polka dot table cloth because pink is Adelaide's favorite color.

After they finished eating, Wilson surprised the family by telling them he had covered the entire cost of the meal.

"What they did — going above and beyond to help my daughter eat at her favorite restaurant — it's just really amazing what they did. Because they didn't have to," Nguyen said.

Adelaide still has a rough road ahead, but her doctors believe she could be cancer-free by September 2021.

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