Please help Super Ella beat cancer!

You know that feeling when the warmth of the sun touches your cheeks for the first time after a long winter? THAT is the warmth Ella’s smile.

You know the sound you hear when you’re awoken to birds chirping instead of howling winter winds for the first time in months? THAT is the sound of Ella’s sweet laughter.

You know that feeling when you step outside on the first true day of spring and see/smell the newness around you? That safety you feel- that is the safety Ella feels in Connie as her mother and Karl as her father.

Unfortunately, childhood cancer does not discriminate. There is no rhyme or reason to who it touches..who’s life it alters forever.

Meet sweet Ella- at just 3years old, Ella was diagnosed with B-lymphoblastic leukemia. For those of you who just happened upon this GoFund Me and do not know her, Ella is a dino-loving Disney princess in her own right who can’t understand what’s going on in her body. She doesn’t know why she is going to the drs so much, why she is sleeping in a hospital bed instead of her warm, familiar bed, why mommy and daddy look so tired and sad or why she can’t go anywhere..why she has to stay locked away from others. She is just a little girl. A Disney princess who is being forced to transform into a super hero as she takes on the biggest battle of her life. Ella has already undergone a bone marrow surgery and has many more surgeries and procedures to go.

Meet Connie and Karl- the perfect parents. Hardworking, loving, kind parents. Kind people. Human beings who do right by the world but who have been touched by the unthinkable.

While they are doing their best to wrap their head around this injustice with a facade of strength for sweet Ella- they have a long road ahead. Something the rest of us don’t even want to imagine. They will be unable to work, as with Ella, will be the only place their time can (and should) be spent. They will be spending many nights in CHOP; while trying to figure out how to pay a mortgage for a home they will not be in full time. They will be living off of hospital food, which is not free to the parents of sick children.

They will miss bills because they do not have the money or are missing the memory, after countless sleepless night, to pay for them. They will have mounting medical bills that come quicker than anyone could keep up with; but, if it comes to your child’s recovery or a bill that you have no idea how you’re going to pay- what would you choose?

Dear Readers, whether, family, friends acquaintances or strangers:

Please put your feet in their shoes. Please put your mind (as painful as it may be) where their mind is…just for a moment. Your heart where their heart is and please find it within you to help this family. They need all of our help- YOUR help; as this face this unexpected battle and long road ahead. Please contribute to Ella’s healing and journey.

Everything is appreciated more than you know!

Love,

Erin