Why I'm fundraising for St. Jude
Thanks to you donors like you, no family ever receives a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food - because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.
Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened more than 50 years ago.
Join me! Together we can help St. Jude change the world.
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
TAYLOR BUONADONNA
June 9, 1993 - November 28, 2010
Washington Township, New Jersey
Taylor's Story
Taylor was a 13-year-old girl who was diagnosed with a bone cancer known as Osteosarcoma. After many rounds of chemo radiation and limb salvage surgery, she went into remission for almost 2 years when it came back in the other leg. Again, she went through radiation and chemo but succumbed to the illness at the age of 17. Was, one of the easiest babies any mother can ask for. She was so kind and thoughtful and generous. She loved her sisters. They would play with Barbies and Pokémon cards and Bratz dolls and play school and house and she loved wildwood every summer when we were on vacation and she would love to go on the beach. Again, she loved being with her sisters, her favorite holiday was Thanksgiving because she loved all the food and would watch Food Network all the time. She got to meet Buddy from cake boss and Giada DeLaurentis at a book signing. School was very important to her and she was smart. She had a handful of wonderful friends that she made when we moved here to Washington Township. And again just wanna stress how important her family was to her. She also was very crafty. She loved painting. She loved decorating cake drawing and during Christmas we would have Christmas movie night as a family and she looked forward to that as well. She loved helping them decorate the tree and she is missed so very much. Her memories kept alive every year on the day that she passed which is November 28th 2010 and on the day of birth is June 19, 1993. Every year all of her friends and family and extended family that we have including our grandchildren come to our home and we celebrate her life. While Taylor was going through her treatment, we also had our sixth child, a little boy. Her only brother who she loved as well and would help care for him when she wasn't feeling well and home from school because of her treatment. Although she did not spend as much time with him as she did with her sisters... she loved him with her whole heart.