Inspirational Stories

I was first diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in September 2014 when I was six years old. I relapsed three additional times between 2014 and 2021. I had a bone marrow transplant in 2020 during COVID-19 and relapsed again six months after the transplant. In July 2021, I received huCART-meso cells at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Since that time, I have remained in remission. 

I had such a strong cytokine response to the T-cells that I ended up in the ICU for three weeks. While I was in the ICU, I went into cardiac arrest twice. There is so much more to my story, and I am writing a book to help families coping with cancer. I feel that I have learned a lot through this experience and want to share what I learned with as many people as possible. 

This has been a long journey for me, and there were times that I was really scared, but I always believed my doctors at CHOP. It was also really hard on my family, but they were always there for me and got me through everything. I want to give back to all of the people who made it possible for me to be here today.