Fight The Goode Fight

11/18/2025

We wanted to thank Adam’s Army and Santa’s Wonderland for inviting us out to experience all the Christmas Lights and opportunity to meet with Santa and tell him what we all would like for Christmas.

09/13/2025

Gabriel spent the day at the hospital yesterday 9/12/25 for blood work and a meeting with our Oncology Team. Gabriel decided to do a finger poke but this time he said it hurt. Mom said when they poked his finger she said she’d never seen it bleed so much. Results determined most if his counts are worrisome low, platelets, white blood count, hemoglobin. His red blood count is normal. The cancer markers in his blood have since increased and are the highest since last September but still within the normal range. Our oncologist says we just have to be mindful and pay close attention to random bruising on his abdomen, chest, back, refrain from getting injured or starts bleeding. Otherwise Gabriel is out here taking care of business as usual and is in good spirits.
As always please continue to say a prayer for our son and family. Much love and respect.
Love, the Goode’s.

09/06/2025

Go Gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Never Ever Give Up. Next appointment is September 12.

09/03/2025

09/01/2025

Next appointment Sept 12

08/24/2025

Gabriel is having his 9th birthday party at the house today. Several friends from school came over to help celebrate. Can’t talk long getting ready for a Nerf Gun Battle at the park.

08/18/2025

Happy Birthday to the Strongest and bravest kid, we are proud to be his parents today makes 9 Years Old, which is 108 Months, 469 weeks, 3,285 days, 78,840 hours, 4,730,400 minutes, or
283, 824,000 seconds.
Happy 9th Birthday Gabriel.
Love, Mom, Dad, Cielo, Sylvia, Lucy, Bailey, Gracie.

08/17/2025

A huge shout out to A Kid Again organization for the invite to Sschlitterbahn for the day. We had a good time. A Kid Again - Texas

08/11/2025

We closed summer with popcorn, giggles, and Elio—BIG thanks to BIG Love Cancer Care! 🍿💛 Then, boom… first day of school. 📚 They looked amazing, had a blast, and handled those “welcome back” hiccups like total pros. Watch out, school year—we’re coming for you. 😎✨

07/30/2025

Yall don’t forget the walk coming up!!!! Come out and join us!!! We went last year and it’s sooooo much fun, for the whole family.

Join us as we raise awareness and funds for families of children with cancer!

07/03/2025

Thumbs Up, We will take it. Days like today are beyond stressful for all of us. Started the morning with labs and blood work. Took the needle like a champ this morning.

We had a Hematology appointment we discussed the “why”, some of his counts are down and have yet gone back to normal since we ended treatment almost 7 months ago. Some of the counts have increased and finally in the normal range but a few are not. They wanna continue to monitor it closely and there’s a possibility in the near future to have to go through another Bone Marrow Biopsy. His platelets have not gone up to where they need to be. It’s possible his body is still trying to recover from the treatment.

Our next appointment was with our Oncology Doctors and we discussed some of the lab results. The Cancer Markers (AFP) have since increased almost 3x the amount at last check two months ago. Although still within the normal range, looking back at previous results and time frames between the initial diagnosis to treatment, to remission, to relapse, to 2nd treatment, to remission (now). On what the Cancer Markers have done previously wasnt what we wanted to see. We are all hopeful that is not going to be the case this time. We will continue to monitor it closely with our bi-monthly visits and see what the results are then.

Our final appointment today was an Echocardiogram. It lasted about an hour, Gabriel was ready to go 10 minutes into it. Hard to keep an 8 year old focused to stay still for an hour. The more you remind him to breath normal and remain still. Turns into a game of how many times he can move and you not notice or hold his breath. Gabriel goes through this once every 6 months due to the possibility of a negative long term side effect of one of the Chemotherapy Treatments he received during the first treatment. We received the results this evening and as of right now everything is on the up and up and normal. We will check again in 6 months.

As always our family is forever grateful for all the love, support, prayers, messages and kind words, it means a lot.
Love, The Goode’s

07/02/2025

At present, everyone is facing considerable stress. Gabriel is anxious, Sylvia is having a breakdown, Cielo is experiencing silent stress, and ,mom and dad are struggling with nail biting and sleeplessness due to worry, while trying to maintain a sense of normalcy for the kids. We are scheduled for laboratory tests and an echocardiogram this morning.