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Bianca Maderal\u2019s life changed three years ago when a nurse gave her a purple care package\u00a0 while she was a cancer patient at The Johns Hopkins<\/span><\/a> Hospital in Baltimore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The gift\u2014which included a hat, deck of cards, word puzzle and water bottle\u2014helped the 22-year-old former Kendall Campus<\/span><\/a> student stay busy while she underwent intensive radiation and chemotherapy for stage 3 brain cancer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It inspired her to create Fight Like A Kid, a non-profit organization that sends care packages to pediatric hospitals, and organizes fundraisers for cancer research and clinical trials, in 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI would sit in my room and be like, well, what I would like to receive in doing my therapy?,\u201d Maderal said. \u201cWhat could help me? What could bring smiles to the patients?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing that someone who is going through so much takes the time to think about others who are also going through their own battles,\u201d said Adrienne Yuen, who served as Maderal\u2019s academic advisor at FIU for two years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Through the packages, Maderal wants to emulate the optimistic spirit of the children she sees battling cancer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing kids fight cancer, you can\u2019t compare it to adults,\u201d Maderal said. \u201cAdults complain. They hit depression. I\u2019m not saying kids don\u2019t complain and don\u2019t hit depression, but the kids are always so happy and cheerful. I choose Fight Like A Kid because we need to fight for those kids.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Diagnosed With Cancer<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Bianca
Tales Of Bravery: Bianca Maderal created her non-profit, Fight Like A Kid, after undergoing intense radiation and chemotherapy treatment for stage 3 brain cancer in 2015. She hopes her story inspires other pediatric cancer patients to persevere through the illness.
VANESSA GIMENEZ \/ THE REPORTER<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Maderal was born in 1997 in Miami to Puerto Rican parents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She began dancing at the Dance Empire studio in Kendall when she was two. Maderal stayed there well into her teenage years, training for eight hours a day while getting ready for competitions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But her energetic lifestyle came to a halt in 2015 when she suffered a seizure during a Spanish class at Coral Reef High School in her senior year. Doctors scrambled to give Maderal a concrete answer. An MRI found eight tumors in her brain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI went from being in a dance studio every second of every day to being in the hospital,\u201d said Maderal\u2019s mother, Grace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The then 18-year-old was diagnosed with stage 3 brain cancer, one of the most aggressive and rarest forms of cancer, usually seen in patients aged 30-50.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maderal moved to Baltimore to begin the first of three phases of chemotherapy and radiation treatment. The following eight weeks proved grueling. She lost weight and chunks of her hair.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very dark place when you first get diagnosed. You don\u2019t really know anything,\u201d Grace said. \u201cYou have to learn all the new breakthroughs of clinical trials and therapy because that\u2019s where the future is.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, Maderal moved back to Miami and continued as a patient at Nicklaus Children\u2019s Hospital. <\/span>Seven of the tumors are gone, and she is getting treatment for the last one.<\/p>\n

Although she is now old enough to visit a regular hospital, she chooses to receive treatment from the pediatric unit because it allows her to interact with children. Oftentimes, she brings toys, dresses up in costume and comforts patients as doctors inject needles into them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During the annual Christmas Party at the hospital last month, Maderal dressed as an elf and handed out hundreds of toys she collected. It took six trips in a minivan to haul the toys.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe hospital is like my second home,\u201d Maderal said. \u201cI tell my nurses all the time, \u2018you guys are like my aunts\u2019, and my doctors, I mean, my second dads. It\u2019s like heaven being there with the kids.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maderal hasn\u2019t allowed the treatment to affect her studies, even if it\u2019s meant attending class against her doctor\u2019s advice. She graduated high school on time while completing her coursework virtually, and made the effort to attend as many senior activities as she could. Her friends Facetimed her during their class\u2019 senior brunch when she was in Baltimore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe didn\u2019t have many challenges that we had to solve,\u201d Yuen said. \u201cShe\u2019s very organized and proactive. She anticipates barriers. She will seek out help. I think that\u2019s what really served her, if she was encountering a problem, immediately she would reach out to her professors or reach out to me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Before her diagnosis, Maderal dreamt of attending the University of Central Florida, but was forced to take classes at Kendall Campus since she wasn\u2019t allowed to drive herself. She\u00a0 graduated with an associate\u2019s degree in pre-nursing in 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I Can: Fight Like A Kid care packages contain blankets, chapstick and coloring books to distract pediatric cancer patients while they undergo treatment.
VANESSA GIMENEZ \/ THE REPORTER<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fighting Like A Kid<\/b><\/p>\n

The name Fight Like A Kid comes from Maderal\u2019s mission to fight for children fighting cancer. Children, in her opinion, are adept at staying optimistic and joyful\u2013traits that older patients often lose while undergoing treatment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you think childhood, you probably picture going to the park, going down a slide, swinging on a swing set,\u201d Maderal said. \u201cWell, the life of childhood within pediatric cancer is riding your skateboard, which is your IV pole, down the medical hallway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The gray backpacks, which features the words Fight Like A Kid, alongside the pediatric cancer logo, are packed with T-shirts, blankets, toys, positive notes, Kleenex<\/span> tissues<\/span>, coloring books and lip balm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maderal donates the packages to several hospitals around the country, and raises the money to produce them through fundraising events. During routine chemotherapy treatments, she gifts packages to patients in her hospital wing while they wait for treatment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like I\u2019m in my bed the entire time, I\u2019m with my IV pole running up and down the hallway, visiting patients to give them their care packages,\u201d Maderal said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Soaring High\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

She set her sights on becoming a pediatric oncologist when she was diagnosed and has been shadowing several, observing their methods, taking notes and interacting with the children when they need help.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maderal reached another milestone last month\u2014graduating college. She earned her bachelor\u2019s in psychology, a semester early from FIU while maintaining a 3.9 GPA, and plans to get a second bachelor\u2019s degree in natural and applied science.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was given this mountain to show others that it can be moved,\u201d Maderal said. \u201cI want to inspire people. I want someone to look at me and say, \u2018because of you, I didn\u2019t give up.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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