Was contacted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation in 1984 for a 16-year-old boy named Robert, who was dying of leukemia and whose last wish was to meet him. In 1985, Robert, in remission and recovering thanks in part to Dee's advice on bodybuilding and weight gain supplements from his hospital visit, attended an outdoor concert Twisted Sister and Iron Maiden played in Tempe, Arizona. Dee was later told by the foundation that only terminal children got wishes fulfilled, and Robert was the first recipient who ever survived. Immediately following Snider's visit, his leukemia went into remission, and though doctors told his mother the cancer could return at any time and he would die, Dee wrote in his book "Shut Up and Give Me the Mic" that Robert was still alive in his 40s and had a wife and kids.
