RAISE FUNDS FOR 5-YEAR-OLD JAYCE VOGEL

After a two-year hiatus due to Covid-19 restrictions, the Colorado Eagles are excited to announce the return of the team’s annual “Pot of Gold” fundraiser, in which the Eagles will be raising funds for 5-year-old Jayce Vogel and his family of Timnath.

 

At just 6 months old, Jayce was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic neuroblastoma, a cancerous tumor that begins in nerve tissue of infants and very young children. For a year, Jayce was being cared for and treated at Children’s Hospital Colorado. He was later referred to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York for treatment, which would require monthly trips — sometimes in excess of 18 days — from their family’s home in Timnath to New York City, where Jayce would undergo painful treatments of immunotherapy. After enduring over a year and a half of tough travel back and forth for Jayce and his family he’s since finished multiple rounds of chemotherapy and over a dozen rounds of immunotherapy.

 

In addition to his neuroblastoma, he is the only child in the world known to have a condition called VIP (vasoactive intestinal peptide), which has not responded to traditional treatment options. Most children that have VIP are cured upon tumor removal, and the few that have needed more have either responded to a specific medicine or unfortunately passed away. For Jayce, there is no known cure, but rather only maintenance.

 

This is the 9th annual Pot of Gold fundraiser that has raised nearly $400,000 for local Northern Colorado families in need. All funds raised will be donated to Jayce Vogel and his family this year.