About Taylor

• A letter from Taylor
• From Taylor's Father's Journal
• A letter to Congress from Taylor's Mom

The following is a summary of Taylor's experience documented in her father's journal on 12/04/04:

"Taylor knows the agony of the current state of the art in pediatric treatments and she knows how little is being done to keep other kids from knowing her pain and fear. She had 8 surgeries that did serious and lasting damage to her little body. 14 rounds of high dose chemotherapy, dozens of blood transfusions, weeks and weeks of torturous hospital stays, and countless days hooked to machines in clinic. She knows that the chemo that helped to cure her is a toxic poison that can cause secondary cancers. She knows that one of the chemo drugs has harmed her hearing, another damages the heart tissue and all have damaging effects on the kidneys and liver. Most of the drugs used on cases like Taylor's are the same as were in use 20 years ago and cure rates have hardly changed at all in 10 years. Recurrence is all too common as well.
Our government will spend about $15 per US resident on cancer research this year...a tiny, tiny fraction of what they will spend on defense. Of that $15, children's cancer research will receive less that 60 cents!! 900 kids will be diagnosed with Osteosarcoma this year in the US and fewer that 40 people in the world are actively engaged in full time research to cure them. They may not be as "lucky" as Tales. They may endure this torture to no avail.

These kids are in desperate need of a hero. Private donations and philanthropy are all they have. Taylor knows this story first hand and she is determined to change it. Like with everything else she has set out to do, I'm betting on Tales"

Link to the entire journal