Fight The Goode Fight

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.

06/30/2025

Gabriel was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2022. He went through emergency surgery and 6 months of chemo. he was in remission for about a year and a half when it returned. He repeated this cycle for a second time. He's now back in remission with follow ups.

We will be walking this event with love in our hearts and tears in our eyes-for every child who has fought, every family who has carried the weight of this battle, and for those who will one day face it. You are not alone. We walk in hope, in honor, and in unbreakable solidarity.

Preston and I will be putting together a walking team again this year. Last year was so much fun and the kids had a blast! We hope Yall can join our team and go walk with us in honor of Gabriel.

To donate you can go here

https://2025funwalk.funraise.org/fundraiser/gabriel-goode

If you would like to join our team and walk along side Gabriel and family you can go to this site

https://2025funwalk.funraise.org/team/fight-the-goode-fight

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

04/24/2025

Yesterday Gabriel had bi-monthly labs. It was one of the hardest and best visits. Sister had to join us.

Gabriel put up a fight while the nurse had to try and draw his blood. Another nurse and I had to hold him while the 3rd nurse put the needle in. Sister sat in the corner of the room balled up with tears in her eyes watching her brother struggle with this. He’s not usually a fighter but he wasn’t having it yesterday. Sister and I both had tears in our eyes watching him go through this.

Just because chemo is done doesn’t mean he still doesn’t have obstacles. He definitely has some hurdles to get over

The Good news we got, was that even though his platelets were really low, his AFP marker went down even more!

As always keep us in your prayers.

03/27/2025

Today was a very long day at Texas Children’s Hospital, day full of appointments. The drive there “only” took us a little over two hours to get there. We met with a Psychologist today so Gabriel could express himself and talk about his feelings, fears and what makes him happy and talk about what he’s had to endure over the past couple years and what he plans for in the future. Mom and Dad felt Gabriel kept engaged in the conversations. They recommended we meet with a Psychologist to help us as a family unit better express our feelings. His next appointment, we met with his Audiologist to check his hearing for our 6 month evaluation.

For those that don’t remember, the Chemotherapy Gabriel received during his initial diagnosis 2 years ago caused permanent hearing loss as a negative side effect. Gabriel’s hearing loss has remained the same as it was last check, 6 months ago. The good in that means it hasn’t gotten worse. Unfortunately it will not ever get better. We will check again in 6 months. We are scheduled to come back next month for a day, to meet with our Oncologist’s, do some bloodwork and labs.

So far so good Gabriel is glad to be back in class in person. He is doing really good.
As always continue to say a Prayer for Gabriel and Our Family as we continue to Keep Gabriel’s Cancer Extinct.
Love,
The Goode’s