Welcome to TeamZachary.com. Generations of the May family live in a small community in Bloomington, Indiana.

Team Zachary started when Zachary was first diagnosed with cancer. The fact is that Zachary is loved by so many people! Grandparents, siblings, friends all over the country and they all wanted an update and we wanted information to be as accurate as it could be.

Starting to write Team Zachary was just a good defense. When he was first diagnosed there was an onslaught of phone calls and questions that everyone seemed to ask all the time. There was no getting around it. Everywhere any of us went kind loving people wanted an update. Family members had to continue to tell very emotionally difficult stories that could sometimes be hard to get accurate.

Team Zachary and the letters that follow on the site were my way of communicating to a growing community of people who love Zachary.

There is so much we learned about cancer, and care, about how to keep your sanity (most of the time), what you might expect. Cancer is a funny thing. Sometimes in the strangest moments joy rushes in and I would see a child in a big wheel racing down the hall as fast as he can peddle with his chemo drip following behind. He is bald and he is giggling smiling as big as anybody. Recalling it in my mind still makes me cry.

Team Zachary is about life and love and faith and hope and did I mention love—it deserves another mention. He dies at the end of the story but here’s the thing—we’re all gonna die at the end of our stories. Teamzachary is about the extraordinary journey we all took because Zachary Paul May lived at all.

Do yourself a favor and visit us again. I bet you’ll leave with your heart a little bigger. That’s the effect Zachary has on everyone.

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