Meet Our 2025 CARS Kids
Caridee – Winter Haven
Caridee’s life turned upside down about 2 years ago. She is a 17-yr old teenager that loves doing crafts and watching Harry Potter. In May of 2023, a CT scan showed a large mass on her brain after complaining of headaches. She had surgery the next day and it was...
Dakota – Polk City
Dakota, our 12-year-old princess warrior had her first open heart surgery at 6 days old. Her main heart defect is HPLV (she is missing the left ventricle in her heart). As that battle continues, a liver issues has arisen and this year a golf size tumor was found on...
Meet Our 2024 CARS Kids
Victor – Lakeland
Meet Victor, our newest member of the CARS family. He turned 13 on March 16th and on the 26th, he was hospitalized after his heart went into complete failure. A month later, he received his new heart. He is currently back home and going to school. Victor is not...
Braxton – Lakeland
Meet our fighting soldier, Braxton. He has defied the odds fighting an extremely rare (Syncrip) gene mutation. He just turned 10 yrs old and continues to battle numerous medical issues every day. His cognitive level is of an infant, which makes his seizures even...
Xander – Winter Haven
Xander is continuing his journey to receive healthy kidneys. This little 2-year-old is a bundle of joy. His condition (Renal Cyst) hasn’t slowed him down. He is a typical toddler, loves jumping on his trampoline with his sisters & playing outside. His kidneys are only...
Joshua – Lakeland
Joshy, 10 yrs old, is a walking miracle. Last year he & his family were waiting for a new heart while being treated at Shands in Gainesville. On April 9th, Joshy underwent surgery to receive his new heart. We are glad to announce he is back home, as he continues to...
Konner – Lake Alfred
Konner, our 3 year old lost his battle with his diagnose of MLD (rare hereditary genetic disorder that had no known treatment or cure) in November. Konner is Kyler & Kaitlyn’s only child and they were at Duke Hospital in NC for over 100+ days before he lost his fight....
Meet Our 2023 CARS Kids
Xander
Meet our precious little 1 year-old angel, Xander. He was born with a Renal Cyst on his kidney. Xander is currently in Stage 4 Chronic Kidney Disease and will be needing a kidney transplant soon. His doctors are waiting for him to get a little healthier so he can have...
Zachary
Meet our 7 year old fighting champ Zachary. Zachary was always a very healthy young boy. Early December, he had gotten sick. He was told he had Endocarditis – rare inflammation of the lining of the heart chamber. It got worse, he turned jaundice and the one side if...
Joshua
Meet our 8 year-old fighting miracle, Joshua. At 2 days old he was diagnosed with Hypo-plastic Left Heart Syndrome (heart never developed). At 1 week old, he had his 1st open heart surgery. By 6 months old, he had to have 2 more open heart surgeries. Then at 1 years...
Meet Our 2022 CARS Kids
Braxton
Meet our fighting 8 year-old, Braxton. He was born with an extremely rare (Syncrip) gene mutationthat produces masses on his body, neurodegenerative disease, skin fragility, his cognitive level is of a 6 month old and has a limited life span. Braxton...
Tinley
Meet our precious little 9 year-old angel, who was diagnosed with brain cancer last year. This was a very aggressive tumor, & she fought a brave fight, but the Lord decided to heal her by bringing her home to Him on March 13. If you ever had a chance to meet this...
Bo
Meet our 4 year-old fighting champ, Bo. He was diagnosed last fall with Leukemia. Bo has had bone marrow transplants and multiple chemo treatments. His 3 siblings miss him being at the house playing with them everyday. But Bo is now home after his 2nd transplant and...
Meet Our 2021 CARS Kids
Ethan James Domingos
Ethan James Domingos Born 4-24-15 Age: 5 years Auburndale Mother is Jennifer Domingos, her boyfriend is Chris Mixon Father was Jamie Finley – deceased Ethan was diagnosed with stage 3 Rhabdomyosarcoma (tumor on his brain). Ethan started chemo on 11-3-20. His father...
Meet Our 2020 CARS Kids
Meet Our 2019 CARS Kids
Jayden
It is with great sadness that one of our CARS Kids, Jayden has passed. Jayden has been fighting Sarcoma cancer for 2.5 years. Finally, as much as he wanted to fight, his body could not go on any longer. On Oct. 6, 2019, which also happened to be Jayden's...
Michael
Age: 11 years Meet Michael from Lake Wales our 2019 CARS kid. Michael was hit by a car while crossing a street in the Fall of 2017. Before the accident, Michael was a very active boy with a unique style. It wasn’t uncommon to see him in a tie supporting his latest...
Meet Our 2018 CARS Kids
Jayden “Beanz”
Meet our soccer star who was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma (Very rare cancer that is a cancerous tumor in a bone). Jayden has it in his left tibia. He was playing soccer in PE when he tripped and ended up at the ER. It was then they found he had...
Adeline
Meet our precious little angel, Adeline. She is 6 months old and was born with Aicardi Syndrome (Absent tissue connecting the left and right sides of the brain. They have seizures which tend to progress to epilepsy that can be difficult to treat). There...
Meet Our 2016 CARS Kids
Marina
16 Years Old Bone cancer in her left leg Venice, FL
Ayden
6 Years Old Brain tumor and blind (Their home burned down February) Ocala, FL
Avalynn
3 Years Old Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Pre B Sarasota, FL
Alicia
Mother of 2 and wife Glioblastoma, aggressive brain tumor Winter Haven, FL
Reagan
3 Years Old Brain damage-accident Winter Haven, FL
Meet Our 2015 CARS Kids
Lucas
Age: 12 Childs condition: Rhabdomyosarcoma Rhabdomyosarcomacommonly referred to as RMS, is a type of cancer, specifically a sarcoma (cancer ofconnective tissues), in which the cancer cells are thought to arise from skeletal muscleprogenitors. The cancer he...
Skyla
Age: 10 Childs condition: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (also called ALL or acute lymphocytic leukemia) is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. She fought leukemia for over 3 years...
Maci
Age: 1 Childs condition: Pulmonary Atresia Pulmonary atresia is a form of heart disease that occurs from birth (congenital heart disease), in which the pulmonary valve does not form properly. The pulmonary valve is an opening on the right side of the heart...




























