Little about me and why im doing this .

Hello to all that have taken the time to read this and have found their selves on my mission to ride for all the kids with cancer.

I want to start by saying thank u to everyone who has donated to my ride for all the sick little ones .

The reason I am riding today and why I decided to ride for kids with cancer is because this hits home for me I am a single mother and I had received every parents worst nightmare ,my beautiful baby girl at 10 months old was diagnosed with stage 3 liver cancer ( hepatoblastoma) my whole world just stopped ,I didn't know what that ment being a new mom already had so many things to learn and now I had the next few months / years being taken and organized by doctors appointments endless hospital stays , rounds of chemo many many rounds of chemo ,multiple surgeries, and many nights of no sleep , she recieved chemo for 3 months but due to the size of her tumor and how it was placed chemo wasn't shrinking it fast enough and it took up to much of her liver we were told she would need a liver transplant ,she had her transplant 5 months after the first day she was diagnosed with cancer her surgery went well very few complications minor little things had to be fixed unfortunately but she took very well to her transplant.Not long after her transplant surgery, we had found out that her cancer had metastasized, to her lung, she went in for surgery almost immediately after we found out that she had had something show up on the cat scan they weren't able to remove a portion of her right lung.\n And she did very well and didn't have any complications from that surgery, they were able to remove the cancer completely.\n She received many months of chemo after that surgery. And this all happened so very quickly that you honestly don't get time to even process everything that's going on.My daughter for only being here in this world such a short time, she has shown me what it's like to be strong and to be faced with such incredible odds and to handle it the way that she did with so much courage and fight that I am very proud to say that I am her mom. Watching her go through that was probably the hardest thing.I hope I will ever have to go through in my life and I hope for her, she will never have to go through any of that again, but not just going through what we went through. It was hard to watch all the other very sick. Kids go through what they went through as well. We got very lucky as for the kind of cancer she had, it was easier to treat. As long as it's caught sooner, it was very hard to watch other children and other families. Go through.\n Watching their child not make it, and that isn't right. These kids should not i have to go through this and have to fight so hard for their life that they barely got to experience, they don't get to play on the floor they don't get to walk around, they sit in a room and stare out windows like I did, and everybody going by and going about their days as if it's normal. And unfortunately, your life is being dictated by doctors and specialists. And if you don't, your child doesn't make it.\n I always thought that my daughter was healthy and she was a beautiful baby girl and she was chubby and adorable, and she did not look unwell, and she most certainly didn't fit the mold for a child with liver cancer, especially for hers, to be as large as it was when we caught it. I thank god, every day for bringing the amazing surgeons and specialists and team of doctors to my life.