We're proud to celebrate our second year of partnership with St.Jude Children's Research Hospital, support the lives of children with and other life threatening diseases.
How your donation helps:
- Families never receive a bill from St.Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food so they can focus on helping their child live.
- Beyond treating children in the U.S., St. Jude freely shares their discoveries on a global scale so doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands of more children.
- When St.Jude opened in 1962 children cancer was considered incurable period since then, St. Jude has helped push the overall survival rate from 20% to more than 80%.
- St.Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for children's food cancer to 90% and we won't stop until no child dies from cancer.
Your Donation can help give families:
- Life saving care and treatment for their child.
- The comforts of home: meals, lodging and more.
- Toys and games so that patients can feel like kids.
Fannie May is proud to partner with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital™ in their lifesaving mission: Finding cures. Saving children.® Everywhere.
Join us in supporting St. Jude by donating today. Your donation to St. Jude could help provide:
- $3: Pediatric Isolation Masks
- $5: Snack Bags for patients and siblings
- $7: Blank Medical Teaching Doll
- $10: New Toys for Play Areas
- $36 Meals for One Day
Give the gift of thanks this holiday season.
Hayden
Hayden is back in Jamaica after eye cancer treatment, but he often asks his parents when they will go “home” to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® where he received medical care. St. Jude was the only home the 2-year-old had known since the summer of 2023. That’s when he was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a cancer of the retina, the thin membrane on the inside back of the eye that is stimulated by light.
“St. Jude is like a playpen for him,” said his mom, Terrian, noting that the fun activities offered at the hospital makes things less scary for children. “The staff is wonderful because they know how to correspond with the kids.” Terrian said hearing the diagnosis brought her to tears, but she felt hope when Hayden was referred to St. Jude. There, Terrian said, she and her husband received a thorough explanation of retinoblastoma and what Hayden’s treatment would entail.
Hayden underwent surgery to remove his right eye and now wears a prosthetic. He finished treatment and returned home in early 2024. Terrian said she is grateful for St. Jude for not only treating her son, but also for providing her family a place to stay
“St. Jude saved my son’s life,” she said. “St. Jude has done a lot for me, and not just for me but for other families as well.” Hayden will start school in September 2024. He enjoys playing with trucks, singing and playing with his cousins.
Aspen
Aspen was only a year and 10 months old when she was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma. She underwent treatment in the Philippines, but six months later, the cancer was spreading again. Next, with a referral to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, her family traveled to the United States for the first time. “When they told us that
everything will be free, it was like a thorn was taken away. At first it’s unbelievable. We didn’t expect anything like this. We were so grateful,” said her dad.
Even undergoing cancer treatment at St. Jude, Aspen remained bubbly and happy and playful. But her parents found that they were changed. “It changed my perspective about life,” reflected her mom. “There’s so
much kindness in the world. It’s inspiring in a way that it challenges us, the recipients of this kindness, to give back.”
Now the focus is on living each day to the fullest, with a sense of gratitude. “St. Jude saved us. It saved the family,” said Aspen’s dad. “St. Jude is a gift.”
Eliza
At Eliza’s 4-month well-child visit, her pediatrician referred her to an ophthalmologist after testing her eyes.
The ophthalmologist, in turn, referred Eliza to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® because a tumor was visible in the baby’s right eye. Eliza had retinoblastoma, or eye cancer, and at St. Jude it was found in both her eyes. Eliza underwent systemic chemotherapy, finishing in July 2022, and now returns to St. Jude for regular checkups. “St. Jude has saved her life,” said her mom. “People giving of their own money, it’s helped my baby girl.
And then, you know, they’re able to do research and help other children. So it’s not just my little world. It’s children all over the world.” Eliza is a joyful, playful little girl, and her laugh is infectious. “Most of her life has been hospitals doctors’ offices, but you can still see her personality shine in those places, in the darkest moments,” said her dad.
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