This content was created by Victor Justin Rhodes. This content was uploaded by Victor Justin Rhodes. This is a YouTube video titled "Girl's Cancer Wish Comes True! She Got To Visit Our Farm" (created 2022-07-05) featuring hosts of a homestead/farming channel and guests: Sabine and a family whose daughter Beatrice—previously treated for a Wilms tumor—is visiting the farm as a wish. The excerpt is a multi-speaker transcript of the visit: the group discusses Beatrice's diagnosis, treatment, and remission status, farm activities (chickens, milking), animal care treatments (magnesium and vitamin C drenching, possible injection), and includes lighthearted moments (dad jokes, a chicken dance). Metadata notes it is a YOUTUBE content item last edited 2026-04-10.
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We got a message from Claire, our sheep mentor, about Ryder. But first, remember my problem yesterday? I've been feeling tired, my heart rate has been feeling high. Yeah, I think I was just dehydrated. Funny companion you guys have here this morning. How you doing, Winnie? You okay? One more day in here and then we're gonna free the dog. Why don't you like the new raw dog food we got you? Sabine will show you how to do it. She's savage. What concoctions Claire got you doing today?
I just texted her about drenching, um, drenching magnesium, but I'm also asking her if I need— if we need to do another injection of B. I don't think we do need to do another injection in B. That was just to kickstart her room mode because we think that it had stopped working.
And some vitamin C drench, I imagine.
Um, probably a vitamin C drench as well.
Okay. We have a very special guest today. You guys remember the chicken dance we did years ago? Yeah, that was for a little girl, a fan of ours, Beatrice, who happened to have cancer at the time. This was one of her Wishes. I got a funny dad joke. Which one of you is Beatrice?
They got it.
The dad got it. The dad laughed at the dad joke. Where are y'all from? Georgia. Georgia. Okay, you ain't afraid of a little hard work in Georgia, are you?
No.
Okay, we have chickens.
You do? Okay. All right, we're gonna start off with blueberry snacks. How about that? Try that one.
We started homesteading around the time that she was diagnosed with cancer, and, um, so of course we found you guys because you're famous on YouTube and you show us how to do everything that we need to do. And we were enjoying watching you more than we were enjoying watching Frozen. Hey, whoa!
Oh, how many chickens y'all have?
12.
Ah, he's just holding up as many fingers as he can. Here we go, Dad. You got the mallet? We gotta get the kids from here. Kids, chickens, from here to here. Grab that bucket and call chick, chick, chick, chick and walk right through. Look, you don't even have to call them, they're coming through.
Go through. Chick, chick, chick, chick, chick.
Come on, chicks. There you go. Every day is bring your kid to work day on the homestead, even if you have to slow down a little. So Dad, where is Beatrice in her cancer story now?
She has been in remission for a year.
Nice.
So she has— we go back every 3 months for imaging.
Yeah.
If we can go another year, we'll be able to start pushing that to 6 months, slowly getting further and further. Statistically, if we can get past about 5 years, we'll be good.
What do you get when you cross an angry sheep and an angry cow? Bad mood.
Bad mood. Even Rebecca's smiling at that one. Dad joke told by the mom. I like it. So help help us relate as parents who may not have to go through something like this. Was there ever a moment you were very afraid?
Yes, she was diagnosed with a Wilms tumor. If it's treated fast enough, you could survive the rest of your life, but it's a very aggressive cancer. So if you don't get it fast enough, then usually they lose their kidneys and their lungs. And of course, once you lose your lungs, you die. We thought we got it all with the first surgery, and then when they did the test and found more tumors and she had to do the second surgery. That one was probably really hard because that was whenever they said radiation, and we were really not wanting to do radiation at all.
Well, there went our corner. Corner's gonna grab the mallet. So right, he said leave it down because y'all are just gonna tear it up getting back out, and then we'll put it back up. The kids are getting eggs. I'm kind of racking my brain, what do I ask these people? They have an amazing insight on life and You and I, we're on this journey. We're on this journey together, and we want to come out at the end of this day bigger, stronger, more appreciative. And I think that's the key. Hey, Beatrice, when you were sick, were you ever scared?
Yeah.
Nope, not a bit.
What about, what about whenever they were taking blood? Was that scary?
Did she know what was going on? I guess she's scared.
She knew that we just called it being sick, so she was really sick and that she didn't get better.
Hey, Beatrice, do you feel good now?
One night she asked us, uh, or she said her stomach hurt and I thought it was gas, so I pushed on it and I like— it was a very large size, like an avocado. Yeah, like it— I was like, that feels like a second stomach.
And so I just thought it was something girls grow.
They're different than guys, right? Oh yeah. So the guy's being chill, like, guys, it's going to be better.
Definitely told me a couple times, stop panicking, you're over— you're overthinking it. We went to the pediatrician and she barely felt it and went, I'm gonna send you to the— the— to CHOA, and that's the big children's hospital in Atlanta.
What was that like then, driving to Atlanta for you? Being in that dark for a few hours?
I cried.
I knew exactly what— 'cause my mom had had cancer, and so there was just something in me, I was like, I know it's cancer. And he told me not to call it that. He was like, just don't— it could be anything. Don't think that it's anything bad. And— but I knew. I was like, it's cancer. I know it is. They were like, the doctor's gonna see you in just a minute. And when they came in, they had the whiteboard white coats on and it said cancer and blood disorder on the thing. And that's when I blacked out.
So Dad, what was the moment like when you realized you were wrong? And it was your worst nightmare.
Ah, we were walking into the cancer ward, cancer center at the hospital, and I saw the word cancer and I went, guess this is the real deal.
Wow. And, uh, yeah. I went quiet for about an hour. I don't think I said much. Beck. Rider, she's eating. She's a little unsteady on her feet, but she doesn't see—
I might— I'm gonna check in with Claire again, but I think what my gut is telling me, maybe in a little bit do another magnesium drench.
She's wagging her tail. Okay, I thought—
poop is completely normal.
I thought she'd be dead this morning, at least a 50-50 chance. When I saw that she was not dead when I came to her this morning I thought she's gonna make it.
Yeah, I feel like she's gonna make it.
Ezra, you're a natural-born milker.
Well, I watch many people do it.
You do? Who else do you watch do it?
Um, Roots and Refuge.
Nice. There, you got it. She goes right to eating. It's a big, big improvement from yesterday.
I think so.
So she's—
this is probably the last of it that I'm gonna have to do.
Thanks for coming out.
Thank you so much for having us.
Do you guys have the Rooted Life? Oh, not yet. Today's your lucky day. Now you have the rooted life.
You gotta pick it up.
Thank you, Beatrice. Did you have fun? You gonna give me the chicken dance before you go? Nope. Okay, there's one of the dances right there in the coop and run right there.
