[Frost Valley YMCA campgrounds]
[Silhouette of plants by water]
[Kayaks on water]
Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen (interview): “I haven’t gone before and it’s kind of like a new experience, you know? It’s very fun to kind of go away and do activities I haven’t done before, especially with different groups of kids.”
[Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen and Dylan Aristy Mota playing games in the wellness center at the Frost Valley YMCA camp]
Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen (interview): “It was my doctor. My doctor recommended it.”
[Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares doing a check-up on Ethan at camp]
Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares (interview): “A lot of our patients have chronic diseases and we wanted them to feel what it is to be in a summer camp not being worried about their disease and going to the hospital.”
[Ethan playing a paint tagging game at Frost Valley YMCA camp]
Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares (interview): “A lot of people are not aware that these diseases can happen. And most of the time they think it only happens in adulthood. So when I meet people that are like, wait, what? Like, can kids have arthritis? Can kids have lupus? It’s like, yeah, they do.”
[Ethan playing a paint tagging game at Frost Valley YMCA camp]
[Kids playing a game at Frost Valley YMCA camp]
Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen (interview): “I think I might’ve gone to one appointment with a arthritis doctor, or rheumatoid doctor, and they saw I had something and on the second or third visit, they saw I had arthritis.”
[Kids participating in a high ropes activity together]
Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen (interview): “It’s kind of like joint pain, and it’s hard to move it a bit. And I can’t move it in certain ways. And my legs get sleepy.”
[Dylan Aristy Mota participating in a high ropes activity]
Dylan Aristy Mota (interview): “I have my medical condition, lupus.”
[Dylan playing pickleball at camp]
Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares (interview): “If I see them, it’s like, that child doesn’t have arthritis, that child does not have lupus, it seems like they’re mingling really well with other kids.”
[Kids at camp spotting a bald eagle from the pickleball courts]
[Rain]
[Kids watching the rain from a covered porch]
[Shoes stepping in a puddle]
Dylan Aristy Mota (interview): “It causes rashes and sores in my mouth.”
[Medicine on the table]
[Dylan taking his medicines]
[Dylan with Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares at the camp’s wellness center]
Dylan Aristy Mota (interview): “It was a bit nervous racking, because I didn’t know what was wrong with me.”
[Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares doing a check-up on Dylan at the camp’s wellness center]
Dylan Aristy Mota (interview): “Because if they’re there and anything else pops up, they can catch it faster than if I had to wait until we got home.”
[Camp cabin exterior]
[Ethan walking through his cabin]
Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen (interview): “I get to kind of do stuff that I don’t really do a lot, and I don’t really have to worry about my arthritis while doing it.”
[Ethan playing a game with other camp members]
Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen (interview): “It’s really nice just doing the special activities and just messing around with your friends and all day just having a blast.”
[Ethan playing a game with other camp members]
This script was provided by The Associated Press.