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2024 has been a very busy year for Lilly. She has gone to St Jude every month this year and has had to miss a lot of school and fun things at home. She has handled all the travel and inconvenience so well and has become such a resilient girl. She's been through chemo withdrawals, RSV and so many tests and scans and throughout it all she is thriving and happy. Lilly's brainstem tumor continues to slightly shrink with each scan, her next one is in a couple weeks. We will continue to fly to St Jude monthly per the drug company's requirements for the trial. Lilly's treatment has already made changes with how this drug will be prescribed and managed for children, so we feel strongly about staying on the trial for now. It is possible to get the medication prescribed without being on the clinical trial since it recently got FDA approved, but we really want this treatment to be more widely available so the sacrifice of traveling so much is small compared to the valuable information they are gathering. 

 

We are so grateful for the enormous amount of support we received last year. Copper Rain was there for us in a time of great need and helped us stay above water. We have seen so many blessings from God come our way because of them. A new air conditioning unit being one of them! September Champ was also a huge comfort, especially the Sedona retreat. We are so grateful to them for that family time together. As we go into this next year of treatment, we have Lilly's Make-a-Wish trip coming up. We are going to Disney World and Lilly cannot wait! Lilly loves school and will be finishing 1st grade this year.  Thank you to everyone who has been following Lilly's fight with brain cancer, and for being such a supporting community

This is Nicco Helms and he is our ray of sunshine. Nicco was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic T-Cell Leukemia on his 4th birthday. The startling diagnoses rocked their world. The next year Nicco was in treatment, he was in and out of the hospital with fevers, sickness and routine chemo treatments. During this time Nicco never lost his overwhelming joy for life. He spread his love everywhere he went, and his joy was contagious. His journey was a very hard one but with the love of his family he was able to keep his joy and love for life. It was a honor and joy walking this with him and his family. Today Nicco is in the maintenance phase of his treatment, and we look for to the day he rings the bell!

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This is sweet Kenzlie. She was just two years old when she was diagnosed with High-Risk Neuroblastoma. She had a softball size tumor on her left side squishing all of her organs internally. They immediately started chemo and then Kenzlie was chosen to fly to fort worth, Texas to receive the clinical study treatment of MIBG therapy. They got a MRI done to compare the size of the tumor to when they first started this journey. Her tumor had shrunk from just over 22 inches in diameter, to just barely over 6 inches. Praise God!

Since returning home she has received round 4 of chemo, a 6-hour tumor resection, unfortunately the 6-hour surgery turned in a 14-hour surgery. Her surgeon did an amazing job and was able to remove the whole tumor and only had to remove 10% of her left kidney. This was a huge win. She finished her round 5 of chemo and the tandem stem cell bone marrow transplant! She is on the road to healing and we praise the Lord for his provisions. 

This is sweet Lily!  Lily was battling her second relapse of brain cancer when we met her. She was an amazing fighter that was such a light. She fought each round of chemo with the power of a lion. Weeks before our market Lily lost her sight do to the chemo and the cancer moving. She was able to attend the market and as she talked and walked the event, we were blown away with her ability to touch and feel all the products. She won the hearts of all vendors and shoppers. We have forever been touched by the joy of Lily. We lost Lilly June 5th, 2021. She will always be in our hearts and a part of the Copper Rain family. 

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Davis was our very first beneficiary. Davis was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer. After 43 weeks of chemo and 6.5 weeks of daily radiation he moved onto maintenance chemo. Today Davis's scans are clear, and he is cancer free! He is such a fighter!!! Continue praying for him and his family.

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Email: joinus@thecopperrainfoundation.com

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