Dear Family and Friends,

Taylor Grace Medina is my daughter. She has leukemia, but more importantly, she has a love for life and people so strong that it never ceases to amaze me. She has a laugh that fills an entire home with joy and a smile that instills our spirits with happiness. Taylor Grace is full of love and laughter. I sometimes feel like I will wake up to discover that the nightmare she is going through is just that: a bad dream. Unfortunately, I awake each morning as a father and husband who faces the stark and sobering reality that what Taylor faces is real. On many days and nights, the only thought I have centers around how to save her from her leukemia.

The first time Taylor faced full-fledged leukemia, she miraculously overcame her cancer. But in the beginning of 2017, my wife and I received news that there remains a high chance of relapse. In a situation like this, it is hard to conceive of the next step to better her health - when things can seem like it’s hopeless. However, a week after being warned of relapse, my wife and I returned to the hospital for more news on Taylor’s condition. That hospital visit gave my family a clarifying hope. My daughter’s test results showed no signs of her body having slowed down its fight against leukemia. It seems she is fighting for all of us, even when her parents struggle to cope with reality.

Upon this wave of good news, what we consider a second chance for Taylor, I ask for your help in our continuing efforts to improve her health. This is not an easy request for me to make. I am a proud man; one who has thought that if he was a righteous father and gave to his family first, all challenges could be avoided; one who has thought that if he fought hard enough, gave enough, tried enough, and loved enough, he could protect his wife and daughter from anything.

The scary truth is that cancer doesn't care. It has no form of discrimination, no team, no colors. It knows no right and wrong, and grows into a life-taking disease if it is not treated properly. Ironically, Taylor Grace Medina wants to become a doctor when she grows up. I am shocked that she still maintains this dream since as of late she is constantly stuck with needles. Deep in her old soul, she must somehow know that the doctors are trying to help her. I believe that she recognizes their efforts and hopes to help future generations as payback for the compassion and strength her doctors extend to her.

As a concerned father who is financially pressed in light of circumstance, I am writing to ask for your help. My wife and I ask you to join us in the fight against Taylor’s leukemia by making a donation of anything possible in her name, and in the names of the many people we know she will inspire. Just the taking the time to read this humbles my family and me. From the bottom of our hearts we are grateful for every ounce of support and love my daughter receives.  Your donation would greatly help us to manage the overwhelming extra cost we receive not covered by her medicaid and help pay for any medical and living expenses.

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your time and consideration.

Love,

The Medina & Perez Family

This is Taylor in the hospital during a time she got very ill because of her immune system being very low due to the lukemia and chemo theraphy she is receiveing
Tay ( Her nickname she loves ) to the right and her cousin Raylene to the left
This is Tay after 1 of her chemo sessions and a bone marrow test. Breaks my heart to see my daughter like this. Compared to the first photo of her bald this is acouple of months ahead her growing back her hair.