Heartbreak as nine-year-old girl who got her final wish to be an LA Rams cheerleader dies from cancer after nearly 30 rounds of chemotherapy

A nine-year-old woman whose last wish was to beryllium a cheerleader for nan LA rams has died pursuing her five-year conflict with cancer aft astir 30 rounds of chemotherapy.

Delilah Loya died connected Sunday, 2 months earlier her tenth birthday, aft being diagnosed pinch shape 4 Neuroblastoma, a type of crab that forms from immature nervus cells, her mother Samantha confirmed successful an Instagram post.

In December 2022, Loya's dream of being a LA Rams cheerleader came true.

Loya was brought into SoFi stadium pinch a unsighted fold on. When nan unsighted fold was removed, she was greeted by nan charismatic LA Rams cheer squad, who talented her a civilization azygous arsenic an early Christmas gift. 

She ran onto nan section during nan crippled alongside nan team.

At nan clip KTLA reported connected Loya's surprise, she had undergone astir 25 rounds of chemotherapy.

Social media influencer Isaiah Garza collaborated pinch nan LA shot squad truthful that Delilah could subordinate nan cheer squad for nan weekend.

That year, her only Christmas wish was to beryllium crab free.

'This is nan champion time of my life, ' said Delilah to KTLA astatine nan time. 'I'm going to hit crab because I'm really strong. This is simply a dream travel true.' 

'It was truthful affectional to watch, words can't moreover picture really we felt,' Samantha told KTLA. 'Me and my husband, we some collapsed down, to conscionable spot Delilah having nosy is simply a blessing.'

'I sewage to show my pom poms and they picked maine up, it was truthful cool and truthful exciting,' Delilah told nan section station.

Loya, whose favourite opus 'Hey There Delilah' played connected repetition during her treatments, was besides personally serenaded by nan lead vocalist of nan Plain White Tee's Tom Higgenson successful her infirmary room, a post that went viral crossed societal media.

'Oh babe girl, this is simply a nonaccomplishment to nan full world,' her mother wrote successful nan tribute to her girl pursuing her death. 'You were excessively bully for this world! You deserved truthful overmuch much truthful so overmuch more! I tried to do everything successful nan world pinch you successful conscionable 10 years.

'We will unrecorded for you because you were taken measurement excessively soon. I'm sorry for nan manus of cards life dealt us. Rest easy my saccharine beautiful girl.

'At 10:25 Daddy carried her successful his arms till her bosom stopped beating, we sent her location to eden past walked retired of nan infirmary astatine 2am without our babe girl...It doesn't consciousness real.'

A GoFundMe group up to thief pinch Loya's aesculapian bills has raised much than $140,000.

The family has since founded a nonprofit that besides provides financial assistance and basal items to families fighting cancer.

Her ceremonial arrangements person not yet been announced.