Little Giulia Zedda was born the 7th of January 2008 in Cagliari Italy to Alfio Zedda and Eleonora
Galia the younger sister of her brother Giovanni now she was a healthy and exuberant child a mix
between a mother's brown eyes and her father's green ones her courageous mother describes her as
intelligent serene joyful very sweet and since she was a child has shown particular attention
to the weakest and poorest children to whom she has always given her beautiful clothes and toys
in kindergarten she was known to have a very good diligent and polite attitude she was everyone's
friend despite her shyness now on January the 18th, 2014 during a party she began to feel sick
her parents thought it might be something she ate and ignored the vomiting and headache. Over the
next few days she vomited again the pediatrician said that it was Viral Gastroenteritis
but in the following days not having diarrhea her mother took her back to the clinic for a visit. Now
nothing too serious was found apart from just a slight eye problem but on February the 12th after
an MRI it is discovered that Giulia is in urgent need of an operation as she is ill with cancer
just two days later she was diagnosed with a 12 hour open skull operation. Resuscitation. It begins
with examinations and hospitalizations but doctors immediately had no faith in any chance of survival
this left Giulia's parents in great distress but they clung to the Cross of the Lord
Day after day prayer and fasting were offered for her healing. While she was in the hospital little
Giulia cried every time she heard the other children in despair. She would tell her mother
to go and comfort them and not make them cry not knowing that the same torment would befall her but
in those moments she did not think about it she could only perceive the pain of others
Little Giulia could not understand why an innocent angel like her could suffer so much being locked
up in the hospital everything was a torment for her and for her parents. Now one morning Giulia
took the statue of the Madonna in her hands held it tightly and said: "Madonna, where are you?
I've always believed in you but if you don't help me now I don't believe in you anymore" All of this
happened under the desperate eyes of the nurses and relatives who couldn't calm her down but
slowly she seemed to accept her situation. At one point it was she who told her mother not to worry
Now one day she knelt down in pain next to her mother and told her that it didn't matter if
Jesus didn't heal her because she knew that with her suffering he was healing the other
children in the ward. This is where she began to show great strength but it wasn't a strength
that came from her but from the one who we call Heavenly Father. Now while in Cagliari,
Giulia underwent 30 radiotherapy sessions and 8 chemotherapy cycles. At the end of August, little
Giulia falls ill and goes into a coma but miraculously recovers. Another 10 months was
spent in the hospital for blood transfusions and chemotherapy. This is where Central Venous
Catheter or CVC was placed on a chest to help with blood, platelet transfusions and chemotherapy
Giulia loved the sea when she went to the beach she couldn't swim like all the other children
because she had a "pigtail" that came out of her chest therefore the little girl could not
take a full shower or rather she could not play on the sand because even a grain could
fly and penetrate the catheter causing severe infections. Many remember this sweet little girl
who kindly admired her brother and the other children who on the other hand could easily
take a bath but she never complained. She accepted her condition as a sick child who was forbidden
In October of 2015 eventually the central venous catheter was removed and she was healed. In march
of 2016, Giulia was admitted to the hospital in Rome where a spinal metastasis was found
This time the doctors gave her a 20% chance of survival. Giulia and her mother had stayed in Rome
for eight months and she started a new high-risk chemotherapy course plus another 20 radiotherapy
sessions at Gemelli. The girl is fine and so the family then returns to Cagliari for Christmas
but hope is soon betrayed when in February of 2017 a checkup revealed 10 spinal metastasis
and this time the probability of survival drops to 5%. The family is therefore forced to make
many flights back and forth. It was a roller coaster of pain and emotion for the family
Giulia's hair falls out for the third time chemotherapy is a bomb especially for a girl
of her age. Giulia prayed a lot and made sure that many people prayed with her and for her. Despite
being sick with a bad disease she still attended Mass and on may 28, 2017 she made her first Holy
Communion. She was anxious and excited to have been chosen to bring the Hosts for consecration
Suddenly everything gets out of hand and the disease advances quickly
but in these difficult times she continues to give courage to loved ones. One day she said to a mother:
"Mom you're desperate you have to become because the Madonna told me
that everything will be fine" Her mother then asked her if she and the Madonna spoke often
to which little Giulia replied with a "yes" and hinted at how Our Lady would speak to her in her
heart. An interesting thing to note is that Giulia often dreamt of Our Lady and then of
merciful Jesus. She even saw the red and blue rays that gushed from the heart of Our Lord
without knowing that they were blood and water. The "Madonna" as Giulia called her appeared
dressed in purple. In November her mother was told that brain lesions were heavily infiltrated
and they proposed experimental therapy with new drugs but she continued to play and prayed with
a lot of faith with the hope of a miracle. Now she often told the mother that she thought about how
much Jesus suffered on the cross and said that her suffering was nothing compared to that of Our
Lords. Every now and then little Giulia wept for her beloved Jesus as she was suffering so much
She would have a father kneel down and recite the pater, ave, gloria together every night
before going to sleep. The medical treatment and interventions she undergoes weakens her body
but not her will to live. Despite the pain she underwent she continues to cheer up everyone she
met on her journey. The oncologist requested that she be taken to Cagliari immediately as her head was
full of metastasis. From the outside she looked like a healthy and beautiful little girl but
instead within two months the monster of a disease took her away to Heaven on the 6th of May 2018
Realizing that she was about to die, one day she went up in silence to her beautiful little room
all colored with a nice big closet full of wonderful things
collected in the past years. She took her bags, she carefully chose all the barbies,
the squishies, she folds up her t-shirts and leggings, hats, and all her beautiful books
and in the end she decides to tell a mother about her wish: To give everything to children
who are less fortunate than her. When Giulia flew to heaven, her parents continued to make Giulia's
colorful dreams of giving to the less fortunate children come true. Giulia Zedda, pray for us
"Giulia's Dream" is a voluntary association that collects and distributes to families in financial difficulty all that is needed for children from the birth to 14 years of age.
"Thanks mom, thanks dad, thanks Giovanni, thanks grandma Antonietta for making me live my short life in color" - Giulia Zedda