Truman's story

And even during the hardest days, Truman continued to smile with a perspective that slowly began changing the way we saw life itself.

He danced down the hallway on the way to radiation.
He laughed from hospital beds.
He jumped rope with the nurses.
He celebrated birthdays, holidays, and ordinary moments inside places that could have easily felt consumed by fear.

We left California and moved to Houston, Texas so Truman could receive treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

As part of his treatment, Truman underwent a life-saving surgery that resulted in the loss of his right eye.

There were moments that felt impossibly heavy for our family, moments we knew would change us forever. But somewhere in the middle of all of it, something unexpected began happening too.

We watched our son continue to live with a kind of joy we could not always understand ourselves.

One moment we thought we were treating pink eye, and within days we were sitting in a children’s hospital hearing words no parent is ever prepared for.

As parents, you do not stop to process it.
You act.

Somehow, you just keep moving forward through the next moment, and then the next one after that.

Our lives changed overnight.

Truman was three years old when he was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer behind his right eye.

Two-time cancer survivor, sports fanatic, and the reason this foundation exists.

Meet truman