Jaicey was born with an undiagnosed blood disorder that caused her to develop over thirty aneurysms (a bulge or ballooning in the wall of a blood vessel) in her body “from her brain to her toes,” her mom, Jessica, explained.

These aneurysms needed to be monitored constantly so that they didn’t rupture. That meant that Jaicey had to avoid excitement and temperature fluctuations, both of which would be difficult for anyone, but especially hard for a young child to manage. To make matters worse, the medical treatments caused nightmares.

For her wish, she wanted to turn her room into a nice, quiet space. It was important that the room have a place to do art, a slide bed, and “a unicorn to protect her.” The hope was that the remodeled room would provide constant comfort and help reduce the nightmares.

Jaicey’s life was much larger than just her illness though. She was known for being happy, fun, loving, and hyper. She liked Barbies, horses, creating art, spending time with friends and family, and unicorns. She was loved and doted on by her family and the North Idaho community.  Jaicey was even inducted as an honorary member of the Idaho State Police in 2022.

Her wish for a room makeover was granted in 2017, and the community played a huge role in that. Volunteers helped decorate the room, and a local video production company donated a video documenting her wish. Volunteer wish granters hid little toys and treats in her room, so Jaicey would find surprises tucked away in nooks and crannies months after the wish reveal was over.

When the room was finished, it had everything that Jaicey asked for. There was a slide bed, a horse she could ride, a coloring station, bath balms, a gaming console, princesses, a doll house, unicorn floaties, and more.

Jessica said, “In the moments that Jaicey just felt like she just wanted to give up or didn’t want to go [to treatment], or was super-bored because of her limitations, she had a place where she could go and none of that mattered anymore. Thank you, Make-A-Wish® for making her time with us beautiful.”

After a long and difficult battle, Jaicey passed. The Idaho State Police escorted the family and their fallen honorary member home from the children’s hospital in Seattle. “It wrecked everyone in so many ways,” Jessica said.
 

Jaicey’s memory became an inspiration to her brother. In 2024, Jaicey’s brother Jaxon opened a lemonade stand on Lemonade Day in Kootenai County. The idea behind Lemonade Day is to empower youth entrepreneurship with the idea that participants will donate a portion of their proceeds to a charity. Jaxon chose Make-A-Wish Idaho and donated more than $2,000 in Jaicey’s honor. The owner of Cascadia Pizza was so moved by what Jaxon had done, he made a matching donation that year.

In 2025, Jaxon’s lemonade stand made another donation of over two thousand and attracted the attention of Erik Rock, a North Idaho CEO, podcaster, and entrepreneur who is also on the North Idaho regional council for Make-A-Wish Idaho.

Erik Rock made a matching donation and then invited Jaxon to share his story at an upcoming entrepreneurial event in Lake Tahoe. There, Jaxon will get to share his budding passion for business and his sister’s story, the inspiration behind it all.

"Jaxon is making a whole website for lemonade and [for] Jaicey and will do more lemonade and raising money in the future," Jessica told the Coeur d’Alene Press. "It's crazy how big it got, the choices he made, then Erik stepped in and has given big opportunities to him and more."