I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability – to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip –…
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Meet Nic, an amazing 14 year old boy who was diagnosed with stage 3-4 PNET brain cancer in November 2009. With surgery, all of the tumor was removed & he underwent Proton therapy and chemo. To quote his caringbridge site, he said, “I thought I was done and went to get my first after treatment…
Megan is a beautiful 10 year old girl from Singapore that was diagnosed with osteosarcoma (bone cancer). Her family traveled from Singapore to MD Anderson, Houston, Tx to seek treatment. It was such a privileged to photograph our first international family. Beautiful photography by Shalonda Chaddock with Chubby Cheek Photography.
Gavin is 9 years old and was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma over a year ago (2009)… he was starting on his second session of chemo treatment because the first failed and the tumor returned. Almost at the beginning of the treatment he was told the treatment is not working. Gavin has a twin brother and a…
Taylor was diagnosed with a Desmoplastic small round cell tumor on April 8th, 2009 when she was 17 years old. This was after months of unexplained abdominal pain. She is currently receiving chemo treatments and waiting to leave to go to New York to participate in a study. She is one amazing and strong young…