Layla Grace Children's Cancer Research Foundation

Collin Henry is a perfect five year old boy. He loves die cast cars, playing baseball with his daddy, and is great at math. In May 2008, Collin was a sweet toddler that had just celebrated his second birthday. He had been very lethargic for about a month and was covered in bruises. His mom, Kathleen, tried repeatedly to have him seen by the doctors, but the advice nurses insisted that he was “just anemic.” No one would have guessed that Collin was about to begin a journey where he would prove that real superheroes do not wear capes. Read More…

In a few months, it will have been two years that have passed since my son Ezra’s leukemia diagnosis. In the those two years,  my son has acquired some strengths and powers that the toughest of superhero’s would envy. Read More…

Our little boy, Jack, was diagnosed with Stage IV neuroblastoma on March 8, 2010 which was two months before his 3rd birthday. This day will forever be engraved in our minds . Read More…

On January 13th, 2009, we were blessed with our first child, Aidan William McSpadden. He was born 4 ½ weeks early but went home with us only two days after his birth. He was such a happy baby with red hair and big blue eyes. Read More…

July 8, 2010, we took Victoria to her 6-month checkup, and her pediatrician told us she was “perfect” just like we had heard at every other checkup since she was born. Eight days later, her left eye became swollen, and our “happy” baby was becoming unusually cranky. I took her to the pediatrician the following day and was told that she had pink eye. Read More…

Gabrial Michael Latham was born a healthy happy baby at 1:04 pm on July 6th, 2006. He weighed exactly seven pounds. During the first 17 months of his life, everything was pretty much normal. But when Gabrial turned 18 months, he started to get very fussy. If you picked him up, he cried. If you put him down, he cried. He stopped sleeping, eating, and having bowel movements. I took him to the doctor everyday for two weeks and became very frustrated with hearing, “He’s just a sickly child.”

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This story is a part of Layla Grace’s 12 Days of Christmas. Get the details on a chance to win a $250 Target gift card while helping advance new discoveries in cancer treatment.

Merry Christmas

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This story is a part of Layla Grace’s 12 Days of Christmas. Get the details on a chance to win a $250 Target gift card while helping advance new discoveries in cancer treatment.

Layla Grace started her bone marrow transplant on her 2nd birthday, November 26, 2009, so we stayed in the hospital until five days before Christmas.

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This story is a part of Layla Grace’s 12 Days of Christmas. Get the details on a chance to win a $250 Target gift card while helping advance new discoveries in cancer treatment.

Every year, my husband’s family-all 8 siblings, their spouses, kids, and grandkids-all go to my mother-in-law’s in Louisiana for Christmas Eve. It is a special day for our family. However, Bucky’s final chemo treatment was last year on Dec 18th, and he could not travel. So, we decided to make our only Christmas in Houston a special one. Read More…

This story is a part of Layla Grace’s 12 Days of Christmas. Get the details on a chance to win a $250 Target gift card while helping advance new discoveries in cancer treatment.

On June 8, 2006, our first child, Joseph, was born. He was full of life, full of strength, and full of cancer.

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