This is Kadi….. She is 12 years old…. My amazing and brave little warrior was diagnosed on April 4, 2019 with high grade Osteoblastic osteosarcoma of the left fibula. The cancer was localized meaning it hadn’t spread and her prognosis was good! She completed 28 total weeks of chemotherapy and had a surgery to remove 2/3 of her fibula bone. Unfortunately, her perennial nerve was wrapped around the tumor and had to be cut leaving her with permanent drop foot….
This is Alex….. He is 3 years old….. On Mother’s Day of 2020 we got the heartbreaking diagnosis of High Risk Stage 3 Neuroblastoma for our 3 year old baby boy named Alex. “Your child has cancer.” Those four little words are the most devastating words a parent can hear. Everything in our world came crashing down… The Tumor was 17cmx13cm and was wrapped around major attires. We thought fighting cancer was going to be the hardest but what we were…
This is Gage….. He is 4 years old…. At just 26 months old our sweet little boy was diagnosed with a very aggressive brain tumor called Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor (AT/RT). He had an 8-hour surgery to remove a tennis ball size tumor from the deepest part of the brain. He endured 5 months of chemotherapy with stem cell transplant. Gage was clear of cancer for a year. Unfortunately, he relapsed in November 2019. He then started 6 weeks of…
This is Haysley….. She is 15 months old…… She was diagnosed with Grade III Ependymoma on 11/7/2020 Haysley is the 15-month-old daughter of Sloan and Taylor Baham and the twin sister to Kaizlynn. She underwent brain surgery on November 7th, 2020 to have a tumor removed and later that month diagnosed with an aggressive type of brain cancer. She has undergone two rounds of chemo so far and will have to do radiation and four more rounds of chemo. In…
This is Pryce….. He is 5 years old…. Pryce was first diagnosed August 2018 with Stage IV Neuroblastoma Cancer. He went through months of chemo, 2 stem cell transplants, 12 rounds of radiation, 8 rounds of immunotherapy, and multiple surgeries. He had his first clear scans August 2019. The celebration didn’t last long. His scans three months later showed new spots. In January 2020, Pryce couldn’t keep anything down and was very hard to wake up. We took him to…
This is Azalea She is 6 years old Azalea Coolidge’s battle against Stage 4 High Risk MYCN Amplified Neuroblastoma. (Neuroblastoma develops when normal fetal neuroblasts do not become mature nerve cells, instead they continue to grow and divide.) Azalea was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma childhood cancer at Albany Medical Center in upstate NY March 7, 2017 at the age of two when a 6-inch tumor was detected in her abdomen. It was crushing/encasing her vital organs, arteries, collapsing her lungs and…
This is Hannah Grace She is 5 years old…. Hannah was diagnosed with embryonic rhabdomyosarcoma on Feb 15, 2017. She was 19 months old. She was given a good prognosis and endured 42 weeks of chemotherapy and a week of targeted radiation. She was in remission for almost a year. In October 2018, routine scans showed a large mass in Hannah’s uterus. She started a new chemotherapy protocol and in January of 2019, had a total hysterectomy, partial vaginectomy (at…