Colby Curtin,10, was staying alive to see the new Pixar movie Up. A family friend started calling Pixar to help the child have the one thing she wanted before she died.
Pixar rushed to the rescue. An employee flew with a DVD of the movie to give it to Colby on June 10 so that she and her family could have a private viewing at home.
The young Huntington Beach girl had a rare form of vascular cancer that she bravely fought for three years.
Lisa Curtin, Colby's mother says that ever since her daughter saw the previews of the movie she had her heart set to go to the cinema to view it. Sadly Colby grew to ill be be able to be able to get out to the theater.
Colby had gone to see "Monsters Vs. Aliens" on April 28. During the previews the movie "Up" was featured and young Colby fell in love with the idea.
Within two days Colby started to fail. Her mother asked for a hospice company to bring a wheelchair so that she could take her to the movies on June 4. The wheelchair was not delivered in time.
On June 9 the family feared that Colby's last wish would go unfulfilled. Family friend Terrell Orum called the Pixar telephone number. She took a chance when asked for a specific person to talk for and the system transferred her to someone to help her. After hearing the story Pixar rushed an employee with the film to the family's home.
“Do you think you can hang on?” Colby’s mother said.
“I’m ready (to die), but I’m going to wait for the movie,” the girl replied.
Colby was diagnosed in 2005 right before Christmas is a tumor in her liver. By June the little girl had swollen to 94 inches around her waist from fluids that the cancer wouldn't allow her body to digest. She weighed a mere 45 pounds.
Colby died seven hours after watching the movie.
The
Orange County Registerreports:
“When I watched it, I had really no idea about the content of the theme of the movie,” said Curtin, 46. “I just know that word ‘Up’ and all of the balloons and I swear to you, for me it meant that (Colby) was going to go up. Up to heaven.”
