For children living with cancer, some of the most meaningful moments can be the simplest ones: playing with family, making a memory, and having the chance to simply be a kid. Long hospital stays and ongoing treatment disrupt ordinary life. Days that might once have been filled with school, games, family outings, and time with…
For Aoibhe, camp helped her rebuild something cancer that had changed during cancer treatment: confidence in herself and what she could do. When Illness Changes How You See Yourself By the time Aoibhe came to Barretstown, our SeriousFun camp in Ireland, cancer treatment had changed more than her routines. She was using a wheelchair and…
For families living through childhood cancer, a medically supported camp experience can create something treatment often takes away: time to simply be together. When Childhood Cancer Changes Everything For Conor’s family, childhood cancer arrived without warning. A routine school eye test led to the discovery that Conor had a brain tumor. He had shown no…
For a child like Harry, living with cancer, camp became more than a place to try new things. It became a place where he could take part, connect with other kids, and know that he belonged. When Childhood Changes Overnight Harry was six years old when his family learned that he had a brain tumor…
Living With Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) For a child living with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), specialized medical support at camp created something Nolan had been waiting for: freedom. Nolan has lived with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) for nearly as long as he can remember. Diagnosed shortly after his first birthday, much of his childhood involved symptoms to manage,…
“We are outside, there are nurses who are there to monitor just in case. We are free, we are peaceful. I don’t think about the illness, about things like that. My heart is more at peace.” ~ Liloo Growing Up With Short Bowel Syndrome From the moment Liloo arrived at L’ENVOL, our SeriousFun camp in…
