Finding Hope For Karma

My name is Andrew Russo..Karma is a friend of the family met due to my nephew Luke also is battling Cancer..I'm started this Go Fund me to help her family cover any medical bills or travel cost to get Karma the medical help she needs.. 100% of the money I raise will be given to Karma's Mom..please help the family out who is going through so much already 


Karma's Biography

Karma Lilly is the beautiful daughter of William and Jennifer Little. She is a ball of sunshine always smiling. But in May of 2014, her life changed forever. A very large mass was discovered in her abdomen. Doctors at the Macon Children's hospital decided the mass needed to come out immediately. Surgery took place and in less than 60hrs, it was determine as Cancer, specifically Neuroblastoma. A full work up of bloodwork and full body scans over summer were completed and Karma was considered NED (no evidence of disease) by August 2014. Her life returned to normal. She started pre-K and became joyful once again. Unfortunately, the end of September...Karma's cancer came back more aggressively than anticipated in the abdomen and in the lungs. She was airlifted to Egleston Children's Hospital in Atl. Once there Karma underwent a lung biopsy to confirm the cancer but her body gave out and she slept on support machines for alittle over a month. While on support, chemotherapy started. By the time Karma woke up, her image changed completely. In the year spent in Atlanta, Karma completed Frontline Protocol with varies rounds of high dose chemotherapy, mutation drugs, 2 more surgeries, cycles of direct radiation, and 1 cycle of full body MIBG radiation therapy. Karma had very little stable moments to progressive. With running out of options in ATL; her family decided in November 2015 to transfer Karma's care to Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research hospital in New York City where then is a very strong focus on Neuroblastoma. Now since December of 2015, Karma has completed another lung biopsy, 3 cycles of ICE chemotherapy, 2 more major surgeries, and 2 more cycles of full body MIBG radiation therapy while they await certain clinical trials to become available. Karma also completed an experimental scanning called MFBG to hopefully obtain better pictures of the tumors. But no luck. She is currently recovering from radiation and awaiting a stem cell possible bone marrow rescue/transplant.

Karma was 3yrs old at diagnosed and is turning 6 this year. She's Stage IV High Risk Neuroblastoma. My job has been very understanding. At first I switched to the overnight shift so I could be with Karma during treatments and commute to/from work from the hospitals. But now since we are basically living in NYC doing clinical trials for 3 months now, I'm on an unpaid medical leave of absence.