Eight-year-old Jessie’s passion is apparent from the stacks of pictures she draws – always of horses. A caring and compassionate child, Jessie has a special sparkle in her eye when she talks about the day she her wish to be a horse doctor came true.

Jessie’s favorite hobbies of drawing and playing with horse toys are often interrupted by doctor’s visits for treatment of her brain tumor. When she’s in the hospital, Jessie often visits other children who are in pain and talks to them, telling them not to be scared and that “everything will be all right.”

Her love of horses and compassionate nature combined when Jessie declared her most heartfelt wish of being a veterinarian for horses. So, she spent her wish day looking at ultrasounds of pregnant mares, giving treats to several horses and visiting stables. She even rode Scotch, a horse known as “the gentle giant.” And her wish lived on – Jessie received horseback riding lessons after her wish day.

Jessie's mom, Alisa, said the wish experience brightened Jessie’s life. “It was like Jessie was in heaven the whole day,” Alisa said. “I have never seen her so happy. I got to see her smile like she used to smile, before the tests, before the surgery, before the chemotherapy.”