It’s that time of year! What better gift then to let friends and family know you’ve made a donation towards curing pediatric cancer in their name? Holiday inserts from Because of Ezra are great to mail out with your holiday cards, or even as stocking stuffers! They come professionally printed on 14pt matte card stock, front-side only. Cards are 3.5″ …
Facebook Cover Photos!
Some of you have asked for Facebook cover photos to use for promoting awareness. Rock on – we love it! We made up some photos for you to use, and we’ll keep listing them here along with their URLs (please feel free to share them or use them as your Facebook cover photo, profile pic, or however you’d like!). Download …
Dave Matthews talks about Ezra’s life and 800 days
Ezra lived exactly 800 days. Here’s the talk by Ezra’s granddad, Dave Matthews, that showed us that and inspired our 800days campaign. Ezra’s middle name is David after his granddad – Ezra called Dave “Poppa” and Loved his Poppa like crazy. Those boys had a lot of fun together.
800days
Two years ago today we lost our first-born son, Ezra David Matthews. After exactly 800 days of life, he died of neuroblastoma. Our fight is one he started for us, and we won’t stop until this cancer is cured. In Ezra’s name and memory, we are so proud today to launch our first social awareness campaign – 800 days. Each …
This Week in Neuroblastoma – 10/01/12
Whoops! We missed a week. We’re making up for it now with TWO weeks of nb news. 🙂 Here’s this week’s links… Kids – Why We Fight Dean Puplett 5 year old Dean Puplett has been fighting neuroblastoma for 2 years, in Wales. Shopkeepers this week in his town are donating much of their proceeds to his family. flintshirechronicle.co.uk. Non-Profits …
This Week in Neuroblastoma – 9/17/12
Hope you guys are doing well this week! A lot of nb kids have been in the news this week. Also, Taylor Swift’s song from last week (Ronan, about our friends Maya and Woody’s son) sold over 327,000 times so far, and the video on YouTube has over 1.2 million views. Here’s this week’s links… Kids – Why We Fight …
Grayson Dragon Hernandez
Grayson Dragon Hernandez was 5 1/2 months old when his parents took him to emergency room at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans for a barium enema. They did a routine x-ray and ultrasound but before giving him the enema they asked his parents to follow them back to our exam room. A few seconds later an oncologist walked into the …
This Week in Neuroblastoma – 9/10/12
Buy Ronan, by Taylor Swift, on iTunes. All proceeds go to cancer-related charities. Uhm. Taylor Swift wrote a song about our friend’s kid – Ronan. Then she played it on every single television station in the USA at the same time. Ronan was murdered by neuroblastoma, as his fiery momma Maya puts it, shortly after Ezra was. We wish they …
Caden Shrauger
In March 2012, three months shy of his 4th birthday, Caden began complaining of leg pain while on vacation in Utah. On March 30, 2012, Caden was flown 700 miles from home to Seattle Children’s Hospital. The initial fear was leukemia, but tests pointed toward another type of cancer – Neuroblastoma. On April 3, doctors in Seattle diagnosed Caden with …
This Week in Neuroblastoma – 9/4/12
Ezra’s birthday was last week (Aug 31) – he’d have been 4 years old. We miss him. This week we are also furiously saying goodbye to 2 more kids. Some good research is happening as well. Here’s this week’s links… Kids – Why We Fight Jack Bartosz Crushingly, last week Jack Bartosz died from his stage 4 neuroblastoma. He had …