Santa Barbara Organization Gives Patients and Families Opportunities to Fulfill End-of-Life Aspirations In 2016, Jim Mills was informed by doctors that his 53-year-old wife Leeanne Mills’s ocular melanoma was no longer treatable — she had, at best, around a year to live. The news was devastating for the couple, who’d been married for 29 years and had […] Continue Reading
Terminally ill woman makes memories with family on Maui Seeing the delight on the faces of Belmi and Gustavo Tepeque as they explored Iao Valley’s Kepaniwai Heritage Gardens with their two young children last week, it would be easy to think the young couple from Santa Barbara, Calif., didn’t have a care in the world. […] Continue Reading
Remy Le must have felt like he won the Super Bowl. After enjoying a special Super Bowl party from his Jersey City Medical Center bed, the 26-year-old Jersey City resident got the chance to meet his all-time favorite player, Eagles’ legend and Hall of Famer Brian Dawkins. Diagnosed with metastatic gastric cancer, Le has been […] Continue Reading
We all know that the Make a Wish Foundation helps make dreams come true for children with a terminal diagnosis. What some of us may not be aware of is that there’s an organization that grants similar wishes to adults facing the end of their lives: the Dream Foundation. The dreams of Santa Barbara resident […] Continue Reading
Young Santa Barbara mother of two, Belmi Tepecque, 22, and her family are the latest recipients of the largesse of the Dream Foundation, which has delivered more than 32,000 dreams over the past 22 years. The popular organization is providing Belmi’s final dream of a trip to Maui with her husband, Gustavo, and two children […] Continue Reading