“I see family’s lives change in a heartbeat when they receive a cancer or blood disorder diagnosis. Families often times have to make the hard decision to live off of one income in order for the other parent to become the full-time caretaker of the child. This causes a great amount of financial distress and they have a difficult time coping with the weight of it all. We see families struggle to pay for their basic needs such as rent/mortgage, energy bills, gas to come to appointments, medications, and even food. Their lives are flipped upside down — the demands don’t stop but our families keep moving forward.