Cancer patient, 4, gets carriage ride to Cincinnati Children’s

“A lot of people wait a long time to meet their hero. Ella is our hero” said her mother, Cheryl Shimovetz. “She’s amazing. She’s so strong every morning she wakes up and says ‘OK where are we going today.’”

In May, doctors diagnosed Ella with a cancerous tumor, Rhabdomyosarcoma of the biliary tract. A tumor was found in her bile duct. Cheryl Shimovetz says her daughter has responded well to chemotherapy.

Ella is one of the first pediatric patients to complete treatment at the Cincinnati Children’s/UC Health Proton Therapy Center.

Ella likes to dress up like a princess and she likes horses, according to a news release from Cincinnati Children’s. Her family and friends decided a carriage ride to her 28th and final radiation treatment would be an appropriate way to combine those two loves and surprise Ella.

“She’s just a good kid and she smiles all the time for us,” Sybil Shimovetz, Ella’s grandmother, said.

Ella will still need to receive chemotherapy treatments, according to the news release from Children’s.

“This is really special because she’s four years old,” said Karen Grosheim, who with her horse Buddy took Ella on that magical ride.