A Miracle for Dean

Hello, I am Ana and I wanted to tell you about my best friend’s son, Dean Carr.  At almost 4 years old, Dean is facing the greatest challenge of his life; he is fighting an inoperable, aggressive, medium grade, malignant brain tumor known as Thalamic Glioma.  This sweet, fun loving boy is the son of Ana-Mari and Alex Carr and proud big brother to his best buddy, Adrian.  He and his family need all of our help to ensure he gets the best care available.  

Recently, he started complaining of headaches and threw up at school, but as any parent knows, kids get sick all the time so why worry? Having keen parental intuition, his parents began to pay attention and noticed a change in their son.  He threw up randomly a couple of times during the week, began to constantly feel tired and instead of fighting bath and bedtime like he normally would, he longed for it.  After Halloween he was demonstrating balance issues and that is when  Dean’s parents drove him straight to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital where he was later diagnosed.  

The incredible staff there were able to intervene and drain most of the fluid causing all the pressure in little Dean’s head and alleviated some of the pain, but after getting the final pathology results back, Dean will begin radiation treatment to help shrink the tumor before adding other forms of treatment.  Please, let’s band together and help this family get the best care possible for Dean so can get back to being the incredible kid that he is.  

Please know, that any unused money raised will be donated to pediatric cancer research because no child or parent should have to go through this.  Thank you for your kind donations, prayers and positive thoughts for Dean and his family.  #deanmachine