Dear friends, On behalf of our family, I’m writing to thank you for your generous donation for my great-grand daughter, Elaina. Elaina, was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, stage 4 cancer, she and her mother have been at CHOP in Philadelphia since March of this year. After going through 3 weeks of chemotherapy and 3 stem cell transplants, Elaina is in remission. Presently Elaina is in rehab learning how to walk and talk. It’s been a very long […]

Four year old Ryder was diagnosed on May 13th 2021. He has had three surgeries, went through high dose chemotherapy and is now on to transplant stem cell. Your support allows us to provide money to Ryder’s family for unforeseen costs while they support him through his fight. Keep fighting Ryder!

Ace and family would like to thank John Shapiro’s Superheroes for the amazing donation. Ace was diagnosed with infantile acute lymphoblastic leukemia at 7 months in May 2021 and has been undergoing treatment over the past six months at CHOP. After 2 rounds of chemo, Ace achieved remission, but unfortunately relapsed after only a few weeks. On October 19th Ace was able to get his CART cells and the fight continues. There are no words […]

Hello John Shapiro’s Superheroes, We would like this opportunity to say thank you, for your help and your generosity. Our 15-year-old son Kevin was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in the bone of his left arm. He started with chemotherapy on July 2, 2020 in Philadelphia Children’s Hospital, it has been a difficult process. He has suffered loss of mobility in his arm because the tumor damaged a lot of muscle and after surgery to […]

Our son Cole was diagnosed with brain and spinal tumors at the age of 9 and has been on chemo now 7 1/2 years. We starting talking with a social worker at CHOP about Cole and what he’s doing.  We explained about how we started him in horseback riding lessons!  The therapist at CHOP had started to notice a change for the good in Cole’s posture and flexibility. We also mentioned the horseback riding. We […]

We are so honored to receive a donation from the John Shapiro Superhero Foundation to support our family while Gwen takes on her battle with brain cancer. It will allow us to be less stressed financially while we are out of work to care for Gwen. Just a month shy of her 4th birthday Gwen was diagnosed with an Anaplastic Astrocytoma brain tumor and we are two months into her treatment. We attended the walk this year […]

Thank you John Shapiro Superhero Foundation for picking Mikayla to donate to! We are truly honored that you picked her.Mikayla was first diagnosed with Medullablastoma in 2014 at CHOP and after treatment was in remission for 3 years.This spring, Mikayla was unfortunately diagnosed with a new cancer, Osteosarcoma, at CHOP. Her cancer was in her sacrum and wrapped around her spinal cord. In order to treat it, she had to go through chemo and the […]

Dear Nancy and Ron, I can’t begin to thank you enough for you generous donation to my son Jaidan, especially around this time of year! I am a single mother of 3, I just recently had a baby in October and with traveling back and forth to CHOP often I am unable to work at the moment. Just as I thought I wasn’t going to be able to give my kids a good Christmas this […]

Dear Nancy & Ron, We cannot begin to thank you enough for the kind and generous donation to our family. Our journey began on March 7, 2017 when my 16 year old daughter was diagnosed with undifferentiated Leukemia, later on, on October 7 she received a bone marrow transplant which caused some complications, which was Graft versus host disease and organ damage, 6 months later she was put on the waiting list for double lung […]