Fighting childhood cancer, one cup at a time.
“At one point I had no voice,” said Nicole Mood as she recalled her daughter Delaney’s terrifying and difficult treatment for pilomyxoid astrocytoma, an uncommon and aggressive childhood central nervous system tumor. Delaney was just two years old when she was diagnosed — and now she is 9 years old and two years cancer-free.
In the early days of Delaney’s treatment, Nicole was completely overwhelmed. Chemotherapy wasn’t working and induced... Read More
The night before my daughter Alex was born, I had some contractions, but I thought they were fake. Alex wasn’t due for six weeks. We were still getting used to the enormity of the love and responsibility that came with being parents to one child, our then 15-month-old son Patrick. Never would I have imagined that the next day, Jay would be speeding me to the emergency room straight from the doctor’s office.
Alex, my amazing daughter, was born one hour later, a beautiful, healthy surprise. She’d keep surprising us over the course of her life — and even afterwards.
If Alex... Read More
After Brynn relapsed with a brain tumor and had her second brain surgery, her parents were told to enjoy the holidays. Brynn was just 3 years old. But Brynn’s mom, Jessica, remembered a trial parents were talking about in a Facebook group for ependymoma, the type of tumor that Brynn had.
“They just said to go and enjoy Christmas, but we were like, ‘Absolutely not,” said Jessica, Brynn’s mom. The trial she heard about was for an immunotherapy drug, led by Dr. Ted Johnson, an Alex’s Lemoande Stand Foundation-funded... Read More
