Two musicians are fighting for the life of their child
Daily Comfort ZoneCellist Gabriel Lipkind and violinist Anna Lipkind Mazor, based in Amsterdam, are trying to raise $800,000 to secure cancer treatment for their seven year-old son, Adam. Please help if you can.
In 2019, our little boy Adam was just three when we noticed a small lump on his neck. As any parents would, we took him to the doctor, but time and time again, we were told not to worry, that it was nothing urgent. For three challenging years, we went from one doctor to another, holding onto hope that it was truly nothing serious. But in 2023, after years of misdiagnoses, our worst fears were confirmed. Adam was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer: Ganglioneuroblastoma nodular.
Adam underwent surgery, and we were advised by specialists to wait, hoping the tumor wouldn’t return. We clung to that hope, trying to give him as normal a childhood as possible. But at the beginning of this year, our nightmare came back – the cancer returned, this time more aggressive, spreading quickly to his bones.
From the very beginning, we reached out to the world’s top pediatric oncology centers: Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York, Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht, and Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona. To our surprise, after careful evaluation, it became clear that the best chance for Adam’s full recovery lies in Barcelona. Unlike other centers in Europe, their protocol includes a groundbreaking immunotherapy drug early in treatment and a shorter, more intensive chemotherapy plan that avoids transplantation – an approach that gives Adam the highest possible chance to overcome this cancer.
This life-saving treatment is Adam’s best chance, but it comes at a cost. We need to raise €800,000 to cover the expenses, and although we’re in active discussions with our insurance, their support is far from certain. That’s why we’re reaching out to you….
Donate here.
Good luck to them, and God bless that poor child.
But how, pray, does this terrible story of a little boy, mis-diagnosed for years so that an extremely aggressive form of cancer went untreated too long, and now suffering a particularly virulent form of the disease, with an outside chance of hope at vast expense, constitute a “daily comfort zone”? My day for one, will be haunted by the spectre of this beautiful boy and his parents, who must be beside themselves. I can only hope my small contribution can help, but it is a small hope.
This is very distressing to read – and that the medical profession consistently got it wrong, wasting valuable time for this little boy.