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Giovanni Goodman A.K.A. "The Chemo Kid" was born April 4th, 1984 in Queens NY to mother Maria Goodman and father Guglielmo "POPS" Goodman. At the age of 9, Giovanni's family moved to Vacaville,
 California and shortly afterward, at the age 14, his mother was diagnosed with oral cancer. Life for Giovanni now consisted of school in the daytime and nursing his mother at night, while his father worked the graveyard shift. Through this he still found a way to keep his grades up and not get sidetracked. On September 19, 1999, in the beginning of Giovanni's sophomore year his mother fell to the disease. Giovanni stayed on track and accelerated through school, touring across the country playing trumpet with an All State Jazz Ensemble while also lettering in football, baseball, music and track.Straight from high school, Giovanni entered the working world and moved his way up the corporate ladder in the banking business. Everything seemed to be going well until a few days before his 21st birthday, when he was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (a rare cancer). Battling off and on with the disease he endured countless treatments of chemotherapy, spinal taps, bone marrow biopsies and several other tests. Late in the summer of 2006, he underwent an "auto bone marrow transplant" that would hold off the cancer for several months, but not catch it. Giovanni once again went through a series of therapies and surgeries throughout 2007-2008, while waiting to receive a "donor bone marrow transplant." Being half African-American and half Italian-American, chances of a donor were slim, but thankfully he had his sister,  Gino's Facebook & Twitter pages
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