In Memory of Miguel ANGEL Duran

***Miguel has gained his angel wings on 6/12/2020. He was given the perfect middle name of Angel, as he’s now our angel watching over us.*** It’s with a heavy heart that Miguel is expected to lose his battle in the months to come. He endured 12 months of extensive chemo and radiation, multiple late night ambulance rides to children’s hospital and countless blood transfusions. He fought with everything he had and was even able to make it into remission in September 2019, unfortunately 3 months later on December 11th we found out the cancer Returned and is now chemo resistant to the only regimen known to “cure” this disease. His doctors informed us that this cancer is now very aggressive and will most likely take him from is within the next 2-4months . We are trying a oral chemo to hopefully slow progression a little to buy us more time with him but the end result will still be the same. We are now making end of life choices that no parent should have to make. Miguel has been placed on palliative care and eventually will be transferred to hospice when things progress further. Cancer really sucks. Looking at him you’d never know there was this horrible disease growing inside of him. He looks healthy and acts like any normal 9year old but deep within his body there is a monster growing that nobody can see. But the physical ailments are not far behind.