However, he is not fighting alone. <\/p>\n
The Allied Gardens community<\/a>, especially the folks at Enzo\u2019s transitional kindergarten school, Marvin Elementary<\/a>, have done all they can to support the Herrera family.<\/p>\n \u201cHis teachers love him so much,\u201d said Enzo\u2019s mother, Alexandra Herrera. \u201cThey come once a week, and they text me every day, \u2018How\u2019s our boy?\u2019 And they bring him dinner, or they bring him toys. And our whole TK room, all the parents got together and they got him toys and activities.\u201d<\/p>\n Alexandra is currently living at Rady Children\u2019s Hospital with Enzo and her six-month-old son Rowan. Their father, Alexander, commutes back and forth from work to the hospital. <\/p>\n Enzo\u2019s GoFundMe<\/a> has raised thousands of dollars to help pay for gas, food, income lost from taking time off work and, of course, medical bills.<\/p>\n Enzo\u2019s immune system is currently at an all-time low, which requires him to keep a small circle with minimal visitors. However, this is no deterrent for Enzo\u2019s many classroom friends, who stand outside his window, wave and FaceTime him from there.<\/p>\n \u201cEnzo is the sweetest little boy in the world,\u201d said family friend Kim Morris. \u201cI don\u2019t know why it is.\u2026 He\u2019s really good at talking with adults, which maybe that comes from talking with nurses and doctors all the time.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s just very empathetic, just likes to see people happy and just wants to be friends with everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n Morris believes he takes after his parents in this way, who have kept a positive attitude ever since Enzo\u2019s first diagnosis in May 2023 at just two years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIf you talked to them during that two years, you wouldn\u2019t know that they have a little boy with cancer, because both of them just have this ability to just bring positive energy around everyone,\u201d Morris said.<\/p>\n For Alexandra, it is all about pushing through what you can\u2019t change and being grateful for every day they get to spend with Enzo.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cEven when we found out that he\u2019d relapsed, we were sad for a second, and then we said, \u2018Nope, we just got to keep moving forward. We just have to keep going,\u2019\u201d Alexandra said. \u201cBecause he deserves nothing but the best, nothing but positivity and good vibes and everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n Enzo had just a 3% chance of relapsing after he rang the bell to celebrate remission in July \u2014 but Alexandra\u2019s motherly instincts told her she\u2019d be back. <\/p>\n Because of this, she saved Rowan\u2019s umbilical cord blood when he was born this past spring, which just so happened to be a complete match to rebuild Enzo\u2019s immune system.\u00a0<\/p>\n The family hopes to be back home this weekend, but it all depends on how Enzo\u2019s bone marrow transplant goes. In just the three weeks since his second diagnosis, Enzo has undergone intensive chemotherapy and steroid treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n Finding some joy for the family<\/p>\n However, even Enzo\u2019s steroid reactions that cause rapid weight gain are a source of joy for the family.<\/p>\n \u201cHe looks so cute right now,\u201d Alexandra said. \u201c\u2026 He\u2019s usually a pretty skinny guy, and right now he\u2019s my chubby bunny.\u2026 It\u2019s a sad situation, but then there\u2019s that he looks so adorable, and he doesn\u2019t know it, and he\u2019s just eating everything in sight.\u201d<\/p>\n Luckily for Enzo, food is constantly around the corner as friends, family and community members make deliveries. <\/p>\n Because the Herreras had to spend their Thanksgiving at the hospital, Morris organized the community to deliver DoorDash gift cards, snacks and toys.<\/p>\n \u201cI could see they need help and don\u2019t know how to ask for help,\u201d Morris said. \u201cSo that\u2019s when I was just like, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m going to bring you lunch. I\u2019m going to bring you this. I\u2019m going to Target, can you think of anything else that you need?’\u201d<\/p>\n The local Buy Nothing group is ready to step in with anything they need to buy or borrow, a Giving Tree was to be put up at Marvin Elementary\u2019s Dec. 5 movie night for gifts, and the Marvin Men\u2019s Group continues to fundraise and buy Enzo toys from his favorite movie, Ghostbusters.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/5A8902F7-B41E-4EB4-9F28-2A68C9B95848.jpg\")
<\/a>The Herrera Family. From left to right: Enzo, Alexander, Alexandra and Rowan. (Photo courtesy of Alexandra Herrera)<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8553-scaled-e1764900637931-972x1024.jpeg\")
<\/a>Enzo Herrera before his first day of TK. (Photo courtesy of Alexandra Herrera)<\/p>\n