To truly understand the depth of the plea
"Help us find a cure"
your life must be touched by someone who has a disease for which there is no cure. Only then will you feel the anguish & desperation behind each syllable. Please help us find a cure for Childhood Cancer so that no other parent of a child with this devastating disease will feel this pain.
Silvia Vanni
mom of a child who died from
Neuroblastoma Cancer
Salvatore Antonio Vanni, the inspiration of the Mystic Force Foundation lost his battle with Neuroblastoma Cancer and went to Heaven March 19th @ 12:10pm. The Vanni family appreciates your love and support at this difficult time. They remain committed to finding a cure for this vicious disease.
Please read the following letter & special request from Sal's mom
taken from Sal's Caringbridge site:
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September
is
National Childhood
Cancer Awareness Month
Were
you aware of that?
If
you weren’t, well, it’s understandable…. You don’t see anything about it on the
TV, you don’t read about it in the newspapers, there’s no major articles
in the magazines. So, unless your life has been touched by Childhood Cancer in
some way you probably wouldn’t know.
Which means you probably don’t
know these facts either:
· Childhood cancer is
the #1 disease killer of children-more than Asthma,
Cycstic Fibrosis, Diabetes and pediatric AIDS combined.
·
Approximately 12,500 children are diagnosed with cancer each
year.
·
Each year approximately 3,000 children die from cancer.
·
Only 4% of the National Cancer Institute's 2010 federal
budget went to Childhood Cancer Research. That’s only 4% for ALL types of
Pediatric Cancers combined.
·
Pharmaceutical companies fund over 50% of adult cancer
research, but virtually nothing for children.
We need to change these statistics. We need to help save these
children. Everyone knows the pink ribbon stands for Breast
Cancer Awareness, but did you know the gold ribbon stands for Childhood Cancer Awareness? We need everyone to
know. We need to have a 98% cure rate for all pediatric cancers as we have with
breast cancer now. But the only way to do this is thru research. And the only
way to continue research is thru funding, which we have little of.
My baby died from childhood cancer, as you all know. I live
in devastation EVERY single day. I don’t want his life to have been taken in
vain so although it is too late for him, it is not too late for the thousands
of children fighting this monster now. Or for the thousands that will be
diagnosed this year and in the years to come.
Please help me give these children
and their families hope.
I am asking the world to help me help these kids by donating to my
cause.
Any amount will help.
Also, I would like to ask you to please
forward to everyone you know. Childhood Cancer may not have affected
you personally, but cancer knows no boundaries,
remember…………
My child was born full term and healthy, he was diagnosed at
the age of 4 ½ with no warning signs whatsoever. We had just
built a new house, I was a busy stay at home mom with 5 wonderful, healthy,
energetic children, my husband a very successful and loved Neurosurgeon at
Jackson Memorial Hospital, saving peoples lives every day. Our life was
perfect until suddenly one day Sal said his leg hurt, by the end of the week he
couldn’t walk,
by the following week we were told
“Your child has an incurable type of cancer
and a 20% chance to live 5 years”
No one
gave us much hope.
Now I don’t want everyone to constantly worry that their
child may get cancer at any moment, but I do want them to know that if a child
in their lives does get diagnosed with cancer, then there is hope. That there are people
researching less toxic treatments which will ultimately lead to finding a
cure. But these researchers desperately need funding, we need to help
them.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I thank you for
helping me in this very personal and also very difficult endeavor that I have
chosen to take on. I thank you for loving my baby, for standing by us,
for worrying about us, and for thinking of us. Please always know that we love
and appreciate each and every one of you.
I miss my baby more than I could ever put into words, it is
just incomprehensible to me that he is really gone forever. It is very
difficult to get thru each day but I am working hard at it. I’m sorry if I seem
distant from you all, it’s just that my life is such a struggle, I’m trying to learn
to live this new life without my baby, my bestfriend, my constant companion, MY
SOULMATE……....... Some days/ Most days I feel I won’t make it, but then I look at
his beautiful smiling face surrounding me and it’s like he’s telling me I have
to keep going.
LOVE
YOU ALL
,
Silvia / Sal's mom forever
Please click on the link below to be taken to my wish site:
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Super Sal
by Mona & Roger Giraud
all proceeds go to the Mystic Force Foundation
NO CHILD SHOULD SUFFER LIKE THIS
