You can't help but smile when you're around 3-year-old Jireh.

“Jireh is very adventurous,” his mother — Renee Santos — said. “He loves to be running around, jumping, bouncing off the sofas with his sister.”

Jireh your typical preschooler doing what every kid his age should be doing.

In 2024, Jireh and his parents got news nobody should ever get.

“He was diagnosed with a germ cell tumor, which was on his heart, and it wasn't normally where these tumors grow,” Renee said.

Jireh's parents were caught off guard by the diagnosis, and said hearing the word “cancer” was heart-wrenching.

“It's a scary word,” Renee said. “A lot of people hear it and immediately think they're going to die, it's a really heavy word."

Jireh also had to undergo open-heart surgery. Following the surgery, Jireth u

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