Jillian's Army

A site to provide updates on Jillian Moore's fight against Stage 4 Neuroblastoma Cancer

August, 2014

Jillian’s Army Childhood Cancer Awareness Billboard!!!

Jillian’s Army is very excited to announce this Childhood Cancer Awareness billboard which has debuted in time for September, Childhood Cancer Awareness Month! Former Soldier of the Month, Krystal Simpson, pursued getting a billboard donated for a month for the use of Jillian’s Army.  Krystal is a Hodgkin’s Lymphoma survivor.  The idea of having her […]

Summer Fun Ends and School Begins

Hello troops! Forgive me for the lack of updates on our warrior lately. After that last hospital stay ended, we were squeezing in as much fun as we possibly could before school started! We went to Cowabunga Bay where Jilli did not like any water slides! She just wanted the Lazy River and the Wave […]

Candlelighters 5k and 1 mile

It’s that time of the year again! The Moore family will ALL be participating this year as a part of the Jillian’s Army team! If you want to join the team and help us fight childhood cancer, walk with us on September 13th! Sign up here…http://candlelighters.kintera.org/superhero/jilliansarmy If you are not able to attend, you can […]

Troops… We are Home

Our very last hospital stay is over troops… Our warrior is home. The Biggest “thank you” to you all for your love and prayers. We have completed our last cycle of antibodies. Now, we rest and try to get on with life on a more “normal” level…. She still has to have a shot in […]

Our last day in the Hospital

This last round of antibodies has been especially tough… Mostly on me. Jilli had tested positive for VRE (vancomycin resistant enterococci) upon this last hospital admission. She has had no side effects and no infection from it. But still they had to keep us in “isolation”. So needless to say, this just made an already […]

Cycle 5 begins!

Good day troops! We had a nice long break from treatment. But now we are back at Sunrise in the PICU for Jillian’s 5th cycle of ch14.18 antibody. Today is day 1 of 4 receiving those antibodies. This could be the very last hospital stay for us. We will have scans after this round of […]

August 2014 – Soldiers of The Month

In our second to last installment of the Soldier of Month feature, we have focused on a very important group of people who are close to the hearts of the Moores.  Amber has written this article featuring the staff at St. Rose Hospital Siena Campus.  This hospital is where Jillian was treated from her emergency […]