09/29/2026
💛 Today, we are honored to introduce you to Nevaeh-Skye, one of our Warriors.
Nevaeh-Skye Delgado, 15 years old, is a fighter. She was just 14 years old when our lives changed forever.
On February 27, 2025, Nevaeh was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). What started as her simply being sick quickly became something no parent ever imagines hearing. Her initial blood work was terrifying—her white blood cell count was around 174,000, with approximately 74% blasts, and her platelets were only 27,000.
In an instant, our daughter went from being a normal teenager who loved her friends, her school, and especially cheerleading, to a child fighting for her life.
She endured chemotherapy, hospitalizations, infections, complications, and countless procedures. She fought through things that would break most adults. And through all of it, she kept fighting.
On July 2, 2025, Nevaeh received a bone marrow transplant.
But this transplant was different from what most people imagine when they hear the words “bone marrow transplant.”
Her donor was her own brother, Christopher.
Christopher was her HLA-matched donor. He gave his little sister his bone marrow because he knew it might be the thing that saved her life. He later donated T cells as well when she needed another chance.
For Christopher, being her donor wasn’t just a medical procedure. He was a teenager watching his little sister battle cancer and carrying the enormous weight of knowing that his cells were inside her. At times, he struggled with guilt and wondered whether he had somehow failed her when things didn’t go the way everyone hoped they would.
But the truth is that Christopher gave her something incredibly precious: He gave her a chance.
For a while, we thought we were finally getting our daughter back.
Then, on October 16, 2025, Nevaeh relapsed.
Since then, she has relapsed three more times. She is on her fourth relapse.
And this time, the leukemia is even more aggressive.
We went through more chemotherapy, targeted therapies, clinical trials, hospital stays, and complications. There were moments when we were told there were no more options. We were told by doctors at one hospital that there was nothing else they could offer her.
But we weren’t ready to accept that.
We kept searching.
We kept making phone calls.
We kept asking, “What else can we do?”
That search eventually brought us to MD Anderson in Houston, Texas, because they were willing to look at Nevaeh’s case differently and offer treatment options when we desperately needed them.
By the summer of 2026, Nevaeh’s leukemia had become extremely resistant to treatment. Her disease had undergone genetic changes, and on July 8, her bone marrow was approximately 93% leukemia, with circulating blasts around 98%.
We were running out of time.
MD Anderson started her on a combination of ziftomenib, venetoclax, and gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO) in July.
The first treatment cycle brought her leukemia down significantly, but it was still there. Her preliminary August marrow showed approximately 75% blasts, with the final result coming back at 68%.
So she started a second cycle.
At the same time, she has had to fight through serious infections and complications along the way, including an ESBL/CRE Klebsiella infection, severe low blood counts, and other complications from both the leukemia and its treatment.
And somehow, she is still here.
Still fighting.
Still showing up.
Still giving us reasons to believe that this story isn’t over.
The hardest part of watching your child fight cancer isn’t just the medicine, the needles, the chemotherapy, or the hospital rooms.
It’s watching a child lose pieces of the life she was supposed to be living.
Nevaeh should be worrying about school, cheer, friends, clothes, teenage drama, and what she’s going to do with her future.
Instead, she has had to learn words most adults never want to hear.
Relapse.
Transplant.
Blasts.
MRD.
Chemotherapy.
Clinical trials.
Donor cells.
Leukemia.
But cancer has never gotten to define who she is.
Nevaeh is not her cancer.
She is funny. She is stubborn. She is strong. She is a daughter, a sister, a friend, a cheerleader, and a teenager who still has an entire life waiting for her.
And her story isn’t just about Nevaeh.
It’s about Christopher sitting in a hospital and giving his sister his bone marrow.
It’s about siblings watching their sister fight while their own childhood keeps moving around them. Nevaeh has five siblings total, and they all miss her terribly.
It’s about a father working and trying to hold everything together at home.
It’s about a mother who had to become a caregiver, an advocate, a researcher, and sometimes the person who refused to accept “there are no more options.”
It’s about a family that has been stretched further than we ever thought possible—and still refuses to let go.
We have traveled from the terrifying day Nevaeh was diagnosed in February 2025, through chemotherapy, transplant, relapse, clinical trials, infections, complications, and devastating news, all the way to MD Anderson in Houston, where we are still fighting for another chance.
We don’t know exactly how Nevaeh’s story will end.
But we know this:
She is still here.
And as long as she is still fighting, we are still fighting with her.
This isn’t the ending.
This is the part of her story where she fights her way back. 💛
