Meet Lyric! He's 10-years-old and his first love is all things football! He can’t play right now, so he's been writing about it at school, playing Madden video games and helping coach his friends at recess instead. His mom says he's a walking football encyclopedia. He likes learning to cook with his [...]

Meet Marcus! He was born in Guatemala and was placed in an orphanage.  He was adopted and at just 5 months was diagnosed with major neurological problems. From then on he's been back and forth between Beaumont and Children’s Hospital. Marcus developed at a very slow pace.  At 2 ½ years old he stopped talking [...]

Meet Joelle! When she was born she had five different birth defects: club feet, dislocated left hip, kyphosis, a deformed L-3 vertebrae and tethered cord syndrome, which is a form of spin bifida. She underwent seven operations in the first two years of her life. Her doctors weren't sure she'd ever walk [...]

Meet Sarah! She's a delightful 17-year-old who loves school, her teacher and friends!  She is the class clown and loves to make people laugh. At home, she enjoys playing with her Barbies and iPad.  She loves SesameStreet, The Wiggles, Signing Time and the Scottville Clown Band.  She cherishes marching with the Clown [...]

Meet Jonathan! He's 6-years-old and just started kindergarten.He loves learning, playing video games, being with his family, swimming and playing outdoors. At just 14 months old, Johnny was diagnosed with Leukemia. He endured 3 and 1/2 years of chemo treatment during which he spent many nights in the hospital, [...]

Meet Janna! She's 9-years-old and was born with Cerebral Palsy. She can’t stand, sit, crawl, or walk but can talk non stop and make you laugh!! Her mom and dad are not together, so she live with my Grandma and Honey (grandpa).  Janna likes all electronics and loves hacking into grandma's phone!!  She also [...]

Meet Dylan! He's 13-years-old and has 3 siblings. Dylan lost his father to brain cancer in April and Dylan has also been fighting brain cancer himself. He was able to attend school this year and is happy to be back with his friends. He loves video games, especially fortnight! [...]

Meet Jennie Pam! She is 5 years old and is diagnosed with Quadriplegic Cerebral palsy, Intractable Epilepsy, Failure to Thrive, Microcephaly , Hydrocephalous, prematurity of lungs, Globally Delayed and has right hemi field cut in her vision on both eyes. Jennie Pam has had 7 brain surgeries, 2 eye surgeries and lived much of [...]

Meet Jesse! He just turned 13 in July and enjoys playing outside and loves nature. He has a pet turtle he caught out of a pond and isn't afraid to pick up snakes. He loves going on nature trail walks and looking for the next potential thing to call [...]

Meet Jordan! She was born a happy little girl and at  2 ½ she started having seizures. The seizures returned like clockwork every 3 months and continued to rob her of any progress she made from the seizures before.  She went from being able to sit on the floor for hours [...]