#RallyKid Jade Fundraiser
Rally Kid Jade's Story
After multiple hospital visits spanning over 24 hours, Crystal and Jade found themselves on a Lifeflight to Utah.
“Neither of us had slept, and she kept reaching for me to hold her,” Crystal said. “I kept saying ‘Mama’s right here’ and let the nurses take over because I needed to emotionally process this myself. I rubbed her head and then leaned back in my seat and cried the whole flight. When we landed, it was freezing; we were tired and confused, and Jade was still in her dance clothing. She did not even have any shoes.”
Jade’s tumor filled the left side of her chest, pushing her heart and trachea to the right side of her body. That meant she couldn’t be sedated, so Jade remained awake as doctors inserted a long needle to remove fluid from her abdomen and for when they biopsied her left chest. She stopped talking for a few days because of the trauma.
All in all, she endured 14 rounds of chemotherapy and 31 radiation treatments in a hospital in Utah, which is seven hours from her home.
Today Jade is thriving and back at dance doing what she loves. While Childhood Cancer has life long side effects Jade is happy to be home and with her family!
By making a donation, you are directly supporting childhood cancer research through the Rally Foundation.
Your donation will contribute to the ongoing efforts to develop better treatments with fewer long-term side effects, and ultimately, find cures for young patients like Jade. Stand with us in this critical cause and help bring hope to children and families battling cancer.
Fundraise in Honor of Jade
Every day, kids are diagnosed with cancers that still have no cure — and treatments that haven’t changed in decades. Rally steps in where traditional funding often doesn’t, providing philanthropic seed funding for bold, early-stage research with the greatest potential to save lives.
Join us and help fund the future by backing breakthrough science because kids fighting cancer can’t wait. Their futures depend on more than hope. They depend on action.