This season during the holiday rush, there are families sitting quietly with their kids at Children's Hospital, hoping for a miracle.

In this week's Spectrum Pursuit Unlimited, we met a young man that since he was a small child, has thought about giving back to those families.

“So on the note, it says, 'you never know how strong you are,'" said Noah Satterlee, founder of Noah's Care Bags. "Until when being strong is the only choice you have.”

Satterlee made the choice to be strong and focus on helping others seven years ago during his own struggle.

“And the note says, 'I’ve been in and out of the hospital many times, and I’ve seen how hard it is on the parents and guardians when all they are worried about is their child,'" he added.

Satterlee grew up with a lot of chronic illnesses that put him in and out of hospitals as a child.

“I’ve even, like, been airlifted from one hospital to another, and my parents, they had like nothing with them," Satterlee shared. "So I realize that it’s stressful for them just to take care of themselves, and just taking care of me.”

From that experience, an idea was born.

“And I realize a lot parents must go through that, Satterlee said. "And I started Noah’s Care Bags to be able to help those parents."

Noah's Care bags are full of toiletries and candy.

“When I was homebound, Noah’s, it gave me something to do something like a purpose,” Satterlee said.

Since he started the mission seven years ago, it has continued to grow.

“And Children’s Hospital that we’ve donated to, I think it’s at 19 now, and we’ve donated 9,000 bags now,” he said.

He now has some celebrity support in his mission. The Jim And Julie Boeheim Foundation recently awarded him a grant, which was enough to make 300 care bags. 

In his first year at the University of Albany, Satterlee also set an ambitious goal of graduating in 2027 while juggling his nonprofit.

“So my brother goes to college at the University of Buffalo, and so it’s kind of funny. We go opposite directions since I go to Albany," he said. "And what happened is we just make a bunch of bags over break, and he takes 100 bags to Rochester and Buffalo and I go the opposite way and I take back to Albany.”

He takes with him words of gratitude from families that received the care bags. One pediatric patient's sibling wrote Satterlee a note he shared.

“He said that his mom even started crying when she received a care bag," he said. "Just because it just made her day better, and it’s really touching knowing that you’re just not alone in a horrible situation.”

A lot of the effort over the last seven years has been funded by his parents. There have been elementary schools that I’ve had toiletry drives, but really to reach their goal of having 2,000 bags a year, a lot of it comes out of their pockets.

Satterlee has an Amazon wish list for toiletries and candy, and a website for Noah's Care Bag.