Wish Book: Nonprofit helps families endure the impossible when their child has cancer

As Teena Punjwani and Deepak Nasta take stock of the last year, they sigh.

“I feel like I’ve lived too many lifetimes in this one lifetime,” Punjwani said.

The San Jose couple’s life together was thrown into chaos in February with a heartbreaking diagnosis: their 5-year-old son, Jayaan, had brain cancer. His parents had sensed that something was off last winter, when Jayaan’s writing skills nosedived at preschool and he mysteriously lost balance on the left side of his body.