When Myra Moore talks about her wife Lisa Moore’s life after losing a child to cancer, she describes it as beautiful. “She turned pain into purpose,” Moore said.
Myra Moore is now the vice president of Blaze of Hope, the East County nonprofit Lisa Moore started nearly 10 years ago after losing her son Blaze to liver cancer in 1999.
The organization offers financial assistance to families that have a child in the hospital due to a life-threatening illness.
Blaze was 7 months old when diagnosed with cancer and died at 13 months old.
Lisa Moore was a 21-year-old single mother, but she had her mother, Dianne Prestia Moore, and a community full of people who were supporting her emotionally and financially.
While staying at the hospital with Blaze, Lisa Moore witnessed firsthand the tough decisions parents have to make when their children are sick.
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