The Leukemia Slayer has conquered cancer, or in his words, he, “kicked cancer’s butt!”
Jacob Goeders letting his 10,000+ fans on Facebook know his bone marrow is free from cancer.
The 12-year-old Slayer, a.k.a. Mountain View resident Jacob Goeders let his more than 10,000 Facebook fans know recently that he is cancer-free after a battle lasting 3 years and 3 months.
In his usual friendly and non-capitalized style, Jacob wrote on The Leukemia Slayer Facebook Page, “hello it is the leukemia slayer well it is official i have slayed leukemia!!!!!!! i was so happy to hear my dr come in and say who in this room has clear bone marrow? that would be me!!”
I had the great privilege of meeting Jacob in December 2011 at a Christmas party in Mountain View for kids with cancer and their families. He told me about his “Santa Slayer” project, where he asked his then 2,000 Facebook fans to each send $1 so he could buy holiday gifts for the other sick kids on the cancer ward at Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital. Despite being in the fight of his life, all he could think about was how crummy it was for other kids to be in a cancer ward at Christmastime. He himself had spent a good chunk of December 2010 in that same ward, immediately after being diagnosed.
The Santa Slayer project was a big success, and Jacob and his family repeated the project in 2012 and 2013. In 2012 I got to follow Jacob around The Four Seasons Hotel in East Palo Alto, where he was treated to the red carpet treatment while employees wrapped hundreds of gifts.
