Meet Jayden – Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Jayden has been battling B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia since November 2021. He had leg and back pain for a few weeks prior to diagnosis. He also had intermittent fevers. We finally took him to the ER when he was having shortness of breath and tachycardia. Jayden...
Meet Liam – Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Liam is a energetic little boy, he likes simple things , he likes to act silly to makes us laugh. Liam was diagnosed with ALL on November 29, 2022. Before his diagnosis, Liam experienced fevers for more than 2 weeks, developed petechiae, was bruising a lot, and he...
Meet Beckett – ATRT
Beckett was diagnosed with AT/RT in March of 2023. He was dizzy when he started running around and had random vomiting. He has had two brain surgeries and 30 rounds of radiation and we are on 3/5 cycles of chemo. The hardest struggle is being away from family. Beckett...
Meet Abilene – Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Abilene was diagnosed with ALl on August 8th, 2022 after having exhaustion and petechia. Hope session by Jo Rae Mi Photography | Facebook | Instagram
Meet Karina – Relapsed Leukemia
Karina was diagnosed at four years old with PH+ ALL a very rare and aggressive type of leukemia. One week before treatment, she relapsed. We moved from our home in San Diego to Philly for treatment at CHOP where we decided to live permanently so she can always be...
Meet Kiya – Retinoblastoma
Kiya was diagnosed with retinoblastoma at 8 months old. I noticed a white glow in her eye, and it stopped tracking. She’s had her right eye removed so is blind in that eye. She’s feisty, and strong which she needs for this journey! Hope session by Waterloo Heirloom...
Meet Bryli – Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Bryli has always gotten sick more than the average kid so it wasn’t concerning to her docs like it would have been for a “typical” kid. She started getting petechiae when she would vomit. Something she never had previously. She said she was tired more and had a sudden...
Meet Madison – Brain Cancer
At nine months Madison started to become very irritable, crying a lot, then she started to throw up every day and have yellow bile come up in the mornings. It got to the point where she did not want to play on the floor at all and had to be held all the time. This was...
Meet Addison – Neuroblastoma
Addison was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma on Nov. 1, 2006, at the age of 5 months old. She had a fever in the first part of October. The doctor said it was probably a virus. Her stomach started to become hard and she was uncomfortable after eating. She had a...
Meet Louis – Leukemia
In the summer of 2023, Lois Louis started limping and then had trouble standing. An MRI confirmed that he had fractures all along his spine from the leukemia. The first 6 weeks of treatment were very rough, and we spent more time in the hospital than we were at home....
Meet Oliver – Wilms Tumor/ Nephroblastoma
Oliver was born with hemihyperplasia (one leg was bigger than the other). It was very noticeable as a baby but we can barely notice a difference now. He had a predisposition to getting certain cancers but it was still a very small chance. He got a routine ultrasound...
Meet Jacob – Astrocytoma
Jacob is such a kind young man. He has a funny, sarcastic sense of humor. He lives for golf. Golf has helped him focus on something other than his diagnosis. Jacob was having frequent headaches. I already had one child diagnosed with cancer, so the pediatrician wanted...