A Brave Little Girl's Final Wishes: The Community Rallies to Fulfill Her Dreams

Sara Cantagalli was 3 years old when she was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma. Since then, she has undergone chemotherapy, but now that she is 5 years old, she had to stop the treatments because the disease began to resist therapy. The family of the little girl who lives in Faenza, in the province of Ravenna, has therefore decided to make her spend the remaining time having fun and trying to fulfill her wishes. A list of these wishes has been prepared, and a fundraiser has been launched to try to fulfill them all. The list of wishes Sara's list is common to many girls her age. "Being a princess in a castle for a day; skiing; growing flowers in a flower nursery; going to Disneyland; having a party with inflatables and many children to play with; visiting the Rome Zoo; visiting the Genoa Aquarium; taking a beach holiday; going to Gardaland; being a model for a day and wearing many dresses." The fundraiser As read on the Facebook page "Il Babbo Natale dei Bambini", managed by a volunteer who, by the parents' choice, updates on the situation of little Sara, "it was decided to no longer do chemo. Now Sara will be given drugs to help her stay up, because in recent days she always asks to be helped to get up and often falls asleep because she is tired and loses vivacity. In agreement with the parents I inform you of the following. From the checks made and from the clinical situation of Sara, the medical team that follows her has communicated to us that there is nothing more that can be done for her, her disease unfortunately also resists chemo and intensifying this therapy would only serve to make Sara feel even worse, because her little body no longer receives anything, and suffers a lot under chemo." "Now, also on the advice of the doctors who follow Sara, we will make her spend all the time that God wants to grant her, having fun and taking her to the places she desires, because this is all that humanly, I, and her parents can do. From this moment the parents of Sara will no longer respond to anyone on their page (La piccola Sara, ed) but will only share the posts of my page, which remains the only one on the situation of Sara. I ask you not to contact them and not to ask questions, because you will not get any answers, now the only thing they have to do is to be with their daughter for as long as they will be allowed," the post continues. Some posts later, still on the same page, the list of Sara's wishes and the fundraiser were announced: "I ask anyone who has the economic or material possibility to fulfill Sara's wishes, to let me know at the email address: Ilbabbonataledeibambini@gmail.com, including name, surname and telephone number, and to which wish you want to contribute. Then you will be contacted by me personally with a private number, to understand if it will be possible to realize the thing, and in what way, always considering and allowing Sara's health conditions. I ask everyone to share this message and make it reach as many people as possible, we try as much as possible to give Sara moments of happiness and serenity because believe me, she deserves them all. For my part, I will already fulfill 4 of her wishes that I had promised her a long time ago. Among these, riding a horse and in a helicopter. If I could do everything myself, I would have already done it, but I need your help because I am a normal person and I am not wealthy, but I think that unity is strength." Meanwhile, with the fundraiser, two wishes have already been booked: visiting the Genoa Aquarium and taking a beach holiday.