I was 19 years old when I first came to the Foundation. Young and eager to help out. What I didn’t imagine is how much they were going to help me. Honestly, I never imagined that help would be with these kinds of diseases. But...
It all started in March 2013. I was 11 years old and had never been sick. In just a few hours my life changed forever; I went from my pediatrician’s office to an ambulance that took me to the Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Hospital in...
I remember when my daughter, Olivia, received her first dose of chemotherapy, she stopped doing the things she usually did or liked. She painted and drew a lot and that stopped overnight. She took a lot of refuge in music. She would put on her...
Hello! I am Nora, I am 20 years old and I am one of the "Xipirons" of the eighth floor of the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu. I want you to know about my stay in the hospital. In late 2013, I was diagnosed with an alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. Around...
I am Juan Manuel Kazin. I had acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the age of 15 and 5 days from writing these words it will have been eight years after the diagnosis. Honestly, it’s hard for me to express everything I’ve been through in words. All I...
My name is Clara Pannunzio and I am Celina’s mother. She was an oncological patient at the age of 10. In November 1988 she was diagnosed with ALL (acute lymphoblastic leukemia) at the Garrahan Hospital in Buenos Aires. It was two years of treatment, at...
At the age of 14, I was in my second year at high school. I did not like to study and now neither, but it is necessary if I want to find I job I like and does not involve physical effort. Do you think...