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After a difficult diagnosis, children often need to build a new identity and find language to describe their experience. The Ponzio Creative Arts Therapy Program allows them to do just that. Read about one patient who says the program helped save her life.

My road to becoming a mother was not an easy one. Around Thanksgiving of 2016, we discovered (to our surprise and absolute delight!), we were pregnant. In March 2017, at our routine 20-week ultrasound, doctors discovered our baby (a boy!) had a heart defect known as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. We left the appointment in a fog, not knowing what was ahead for our little boy and family.

In second grade, Carter was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of leukemia. Today, he’s cancer-free, and raises money for Children’s Colorado through his “Crafts for Cancer” project. Here, his mother Kelly writes a letter to her son about what she’s learned through his cancer battle.

It is hard for me to pick my favorite person on the Burn Team. They each have played a role in my journey from the time I first arrived at Children’s Colorado to today. They have been there for me through this whole experience.

Children’s Hospital Colorado Center for Cancer and Blood Disorder patients and their caregivers are on their way to meet their favorite Colorado Rockies players and catch a game at Spring Training Camp in Arizona.