Noah Valdez’s Story
Noah has been an amazing warrior through this season of his life and the NoahStrong Foundation wants to support his fight! Because of your donations, we are able to provide Noah and his mom gift cards for gas and groceries along with a little NoahStrong swag. Thank you for helping us to change lives!
Levi Gardner’s Ring the Bell Celebration
What better way to celebrate “ringing the bell” than partying it up with your family at Great Wolf Lodge! The NoahStrong Foundation was able to provide just that to Levi and his family. Here’s a little glimpse into their fun!
Operation Kill Gilmore
Peyton was diagnosed with non-germinomatous germ cell tumor (NGGCT) December 2021 at the age of 19. The tumor sized in comparison to a golf-ball and Peyton’s first instinct was to name the tumor Gilmore, after the movie - Happy Gilmore. He is currently receiving treatment with Levine Children’s Hospital Cancer & Blood Disorders Clinic in hopes to defeat Gilmore!
A Celebration for Cambri
Cambri, age 14, was a patient at Levine Children's Hospital. Cambri had been battling cancer for almost 10 years. After traveling to Charlotte from Michigan for care, Cambri's family received news that Cambri was in the last stage of her battle. Before her return to Michigan Cambri wished to have one last birthday celebration. While the clinic planned to throw Cambri a birthday celebration they reached out to The NoahStrong Foundation for some extra help.
The Third Annual NoahStrong Holiday Project : 2020
The NoahStrong Holiday Project is in memory of Noah Hays, his amazing heart, and the love and compassion he showed to everyone he met. The objective of this project is to bring comfort to children with pediatric cancer and their parents as they receive treatment at Levine Children’s Hospital. Those days are long and unbearable, this project is intended to spread Noah’s light and his love and hopefully provide some relief as they go through their day.
A Bed For Sam
From Sam’s Dad -
Sam’s journey started in 2018 when he was 9 months old. We noticed one day that his eyes were shaking uncontrollably and made an appointment. We ended up at the pediatric ophthalmologist office and he was diagnosed with rotary nystagmus originally with a precautionary MRI scheduled to see if there was anything causing it. Later that week we got the scan and that was when we found the mass.
Jay Hester
My name is Joseph Hester (Jay), I am 21 years of age from St.Petersburg Fl.
I was diagnosed with Stage 3 Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma on 7/24/2020. I was devastated when I got the news. It all started with a pain in my left leg while at work. I immediately went to my primary care physicians and they stated I might have pulled a muscle so they prescribed some pain relief meds similar to Ibuprofen. The next week the pain increased so I went to the ER where they did a Cat Scan which showed a mass. The next step was to have a biopsy which resulted with a diagnosis of Rhabdomyosarcoma, a very rare form of Cancer. I started to do research on this type of Cancer and while researching I came across the NoahStrong Foundation and I thank God that I did! Gina Cugliari, the Founder is a great person! We made contact and we became friends from the start. There have been bad days where I go to check my mail to find cards of encouragement and gift cards to go to lunch. The NoahStrong Foundation even sent me an iPad so I can do online activities, I even started a VLOG on YouTube to document my journey. The NoahStrong Foundation has been keeping me strong throughout the whole process.