There are moments in life that change everything, and for Jasmine, that moment came just days after welcoming her beautiful baby boy, Emmett, into the world.

In July of 2025, Jasmine made one of the bravest decisions of her life. While pregnant, she left a difficult situation to come home and rebuild a safe future for herself and her baby. She chose strength. She chose hope. She chose a fresh start.

On October 4th, Emmett was born, perfect, loved, and surrounded by dreams of quiet newborn days and healing.

But just three days later, Jasmine began having chest pain and trouble breathing. What we thought might be a postpartum complication turned into something unimaginable: a mass in her chest that would soon be diagnosed as lymphoma.

Instead of resting at home holding her newborn, Jasmine found herself separated from him, navigating emergency rooms, scans, specialists, and terrifying unknowns. Within days, neurological symptoms appeared. Imaging revealed a brain lesion. Weeks later, after hospital admissions, seizures, and countless tests, the diagnosis was confirmed…Stage 3 lymphoma.

And still… she kept going.

She spends her time holding her baby when she has the strength. She shows up to appointments when she barely has the strength to stand. She faces chemo treatments, heart complications, sepsis, and surgeries, all while learning to be a first-time mom.

This is not just a story about illness. It is a story about resilience.

Recently, we received hopeful news that the treatment is working, and her cancer has responded enough to be downgraded from Stage 3 to Stage 2. But the road ahead is still long: more chemotherapy, radiation, gallbladder surgery, and heart repair surgery are still to come.

While Jasmine focuses on healing, her family has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to keep life moving forward. Her mom, Crystal, and her sisters, Olivia and Dee, have been balancing work, combining income, taking night shifts caring for baby Emmett, and even picking up additional miscellaneous jobs just to keep bills paid and some sense of normalcy alive. Every decision they make is rooted in protecting Jasmine and Emmett from added stress or worry while she fights for her life.

They have carried this weight quietly and fiercely, doing everything they possibly can to hold things together on their own. But the reality is that even the strongest families eventually reach a point where love and hard work alone aren’t enough.

It took so much courage for Jasmine and her family to say yes to this page. Asking for help is not easy for them, but sometimes even the strongest people need a village to stand beside them.

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I know everyone is carrying something right now, and I would never ask lightly. But if Jasmine’s story has touched your heart even a little, please don’t scroll past thinking someone else will help.

Right now, this family is standing in a place no one should ever have to stand. Instead of simply celebrating the arrival of their new grandson, nephew, and son, they are fighting cancer together — spending every hour caring for one another while still trying to keep a roof over their heads. They are doing everything they can just to survive, in a season of life that should have been filled with nothing but joy and the chance to truly thrive.

Jasmine is doing the impossible every single day, showing up to chemo, surviving complications, and still loving her sweet boy with everything she has left. What she shouldn’t have to carry is the crushing fear that while she’s fighting to stay alive, everything else might fall apart around her.

This is where we step in. This is where community becomes real.

If you can give — give now. If you can share — share today. If you can’t give financially, reach out and let’s find another way you can help carry this family forward.

Because one day, Emmett will grow up and hear the story of how his mom fought like a warrior and how an entire village refused to let them fight alone.

Let’s be that village.