Support Kauahe Silva's Cancer Battle #AheStrong

We set up this GoFundMe to help one of our Student-Athletes, Kauahe Silva, and his family while he undergoes cancer treatment. Kauahe and his family moved to Las Vegas in August of 2022, and he became a Student-Athlete at Game Changers Sports Academy. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2024 and continues to fight today.

Childhood cancer is a challenging situation to be in and can be financially draining on the family. We have set this fundraiser up to help Kauahe's family with medical bills and travel expenses.

Please consider donating to Kauahe and his family. No amount is too small because anything helps.

A note from Kauahe's family-

Ahe was a perfectly healthy kid. He had just finished his first yr of High School football and started his first High School track season. In Feb 2024, he suddenly started experiencing shortness of breath and a pain in his right shoulder blade area. When he would try to warm up for practice and go to bed at night, he noticed it was worse. He decided to get seen by the athletic trainer, thinking it was due to something related to his physical activity in sports, as he’s a quarterback, and it was his right shoulder blade and his throwing arm. After being examined, the athletic trainer said it was probably muscle spasms and to give it some time to heal. After waiting a couple of days, he noticed his symptoms had not improved, and he was in excruciating pain, which kept him up at night. He was then seen by a doctor who examined him, did an X-ray, and found his lungs to be filled with over 3 liters of fluid. He was immediately sent to the hospital to get a drain tube put in as this was very abnormal and dangerous. Things didn’t make sense as he had no other symptoms of what they thought could’ve been pneumonia.

After getting seen at the hospital, to their surprise, test results showed more than just fluid in his lungs. A CT scan showed a very large tumor in his chest. It measured 6in x5in in size and it was over his heart as well as compressing his airways. He was immediately admitted into the pediatric intensive care unit in CA, where they worked to help stabilize him, ran tests, and underwent several major procedures awake. Drs were not able to sedate him as it was extremely dangerous with the mass on his heart, and also because it was compressing his airways. After one month in the hospital, drs were unable to fully diagnose him. His symptoms were continuing to worsen, and Drs had no other option but to give him a high dose of morphine every hr, to keep him comfortable and asleep.

Time was ticking and they needed to find answers to help heal him. After doing some research, his parents decided to take it upon themselves to transfer him to another hospital, 1 hr away in LA. The transition wasn’t easy as it was a lengthy process and he wasn’t stable enough to be transported on their own. They needed to get a medical transport team to take him as he needed to be monitored by a physician. Within 2 days of arriving at the hospital and doing the necessary testing, he was finally diagnosed with the devastating news, T cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Cancer.

He began treatment right away and spent another month in the hospital getting chemotherapy treatment in addition to physical and occupational therapy. This helped him to regain his strength to do the necessary daily tasks on his own, but most importantly, to learn how to walk again.

Unfortunately, over the last couple of months, has had some challenges with chemotherapy treatment as he’s encountered allergic reactions to a couple of different chemotherapy drugs. They have resulted in him needing to be hospitalized for various life-threatening complications and also needing to be put on heart medication due to reoccurring fainting with low blood pressure. Because of this, he is having to use an alternate chemotherapy drug, that is extremely expensive.

While we’re thankful that his initial symptoms have improved, he continues to receive chemotherapy treatments at least 3x a week in addition to lumbar punctures in the hospital and occasional blood transfusions.

This, unfortunately, has become the new norm for his family, and it has been very difficult for them to navigate their way through with 3 younger siblings. His parents haven’t been able to return to work full time as someone needs to provide care for him 24/7 In addition to taking him to his treatments, which are very often. The road to recovery will take a few years, however, he remains strong and fights every day!

John 13:7

Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

This scripture Encourages Us to Hope in God's Forthcoming Clarity. One day, you will understand and you will see in a much clearer way than you see now, that God is in control and God is good. And he's loving and he's wise, and he is always working for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose!