If you would like to help out please click the donate button below.

Find us on Facebook

Resources

Hospital Information

Doernbecher Children's Hospital, at OHSU
Portland, OR
United States

Lotsa Helping Hands

Donate time and meals. Confirm your email address via the link provided once you receive your LHH email.
http://www.lotsahelpinghands.com/c/622776/login/

Caring Bridge

Caring Bridge is a web page to keep up on our journal entries, see the photo gallery, and write Stella a note in her guestbook.

Special thanks to:

During this time we would like to thank all the support through out this past months. We couldn't have done it without you!

Creative Growers for their Organic farming donated food to our family. Check them out for your home too.

Thank you Maya Support:

We received 5 months scholarship to Growing Seeds for pre-school. TIS "The International School also gave Maya 8 weeks full scholarship for summer spanish camp!

LOT of Helping Hands Website: Thank you friends and family for:

  • Dinners: There are too many to list. We are blessed to be able to fed and nurtured.
  • Toys for Stella and other Children
  • DS for Doernbecher's Children's Hospital By: Sheri Scott and family/friends
  • Clothing, Hats and Scarves for Stella
  • Visiting and keeping in touch through out this long journey
 

Radio Show

Radio Show about Our Story


Hope for Families of Kids with Cancer 

Your Host: Dayna Cakebread and Guest Speaker

“Major life changes alter not only the way we live, but also the way we look at life, our values and priorities.”
My 8 year-old daughter Stella was diagnosed on February 1st 2010 with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. Leukemia is cancer of the blood, which means that doctors cannot use surgery, radiation, or other localized remedies common to most cancer tumors.

Stella’s situation is complicated by a rare genetic mutation that causes her cancer cells to reproduce at a more rapid rate than her healthy cells. In order to save her life she received a bone marrow transplant in July. As of today, Stella is cancer-free and living with 100% donor bone marrow blood.

My radio show will take you through our remarkable journey, following each step as our family has coped with this life-changing event. My topics will cover our care for Stella; our experiences with doctors, insurance, and the hospital; paying for Stella’s care; developing our support network; and taking care of other members of the family. I will be adding guest speakers who have helped our family in many different roles. I hope that my insights will help others who face the same challenges.

Our life has changed in 7 months. We have learned that “it takes a village,” and we can’t do it alone. Our story has many heroes, shining a light on the power and value of community in all of our lives.

Feeding the sick and making a difference

Featured on Parenting Unplugged Online: Todd and Laura Mansfield

Copy and Paste: Help Us Help Others 

This is Stella's Story about her new diet.

BlogTalk Radio Shows: Your Host Dayna Cakebread
  1. What? My kid has Cancer: November 7th 2010 at 3:30pm West coast time 4:30 MT
    How we found out Stella had Leukemia
  2.  The First Month: Coping with the initial diagnosis, and the immediate change in lifestyle 
  3.  Building a Support Network: Make this activity a priority: a little work here pays off big… cooking, babysitting, wall-to-wall toys
  4.  Fundraising: How to raise money for medical expenses, accounting advice. Nov. 21st 4:00 MT time zone.
  5.  Life in the Hospital: Getting the most out of doctors, nurses, staff… what to expect… bills and insurance 
  6.  Kids, Pain, and Distress: How to cope with the bad days, bad moods, pain management
  7.  The Toll on the Family: Closing my business; also caring for Stella’s sister, plus general advice for ‘keeping it together’
  8.  What to Feed a Child with Cancer: Nutrition, low bacteria, foods to avoid, our new routine
  9.  Thinking ‘Outside the Box’: Dietary Supplements, Hypnosis, CHAP, Healing Cabin, Massage and new-age healing,
  10.  Back to Life: Challenges of the recovery period, lost time at school, home lockdown/cleaning, cabin fever…