Caleb Rogers
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This will be a long post so hang tight!
September is a time when all kids are excited for back to school. Just kidding, I think parents are most excited! Second day of school and we get a call that Caleb threw up and we needed to come get him. I got to school and he wouldn’t talk to me or look at me. This made me think that something was wrong or someone teased him etc. After trying to get some answers out him and still no speaking, I took him home and was going to make him comfortable at home. We don’t live far from school so this was weird that within a matter of minutes, he went from not talking to slurring and confused. His pupils were super dilated that I turned around and took him to the ER. He continued to vomit and eventually became paralyzed and his head stuck to the left. They rushed us to Children’s in St Paul and said we believe his in the the middle of a seizure and they will be best to help him. After two rounds of anti seizure meds, he started to come around in the ambulance. They did CT scans, MRIs and EEG. They found a mass in the right temporal lobe. Our hearts sank of course but he improved and they sent us home with meds and follow ups. His MRI in October showed some improvements so they thought maybe it was not a mass but perhaps Viral Encephalitis. December 12, 2019, he had a similar seizure while playing next door. His sister recognized the symptoms and ran home to get us. Sure enough, it was the same seizure and we rush him to Children’s hospital once again. December 27, 2019 he has a craniotomy to biopsy this mass and January 6, 2020 we get the worst news, it is cancer and it is Grade 3 Glioma Astrocytoma. To make matters worse, the tumor is diffuse so they can only remove a small portion because this monster is intertwined. January 13, 2020 he started radiation and will have 33 treatments with a much needed vacation to Mexico with family the day after his last treatment.
If anyone knows Caleb, you will know that he is tough and brave. He has a very good attitudeThis will be a long post so hang tight!
September is a time when all kids are excited for back to school. Just kidding, I think parents are most excited! Second day of school and we get a call that Caleb threw up and we needed to come get him. I got to school and he wouldn’t talk to me or look at me. This made me think that something was wrong or someone teased him etc. After trying to get some answers out him and still no speaking, I took him home and was going to make him comfortable at home. We don’t live far from school so this was weird that within a matter of minutes, he went from not talking to slurring and confused. His pupils were super dilated that I turned around and took him to the ER. He continued to vomit and eventually became paralyzed and his head stuck to the left. They rushed us to Children’s in St Paul and said we believe his in the the middle of a seizure and they will be best to help him. After two rounds of anti seizure meds, he started to come around in the ambulance. They did CT scans, MRIs and EEG. They found a mass in the right temporal lobe. Our hearts sank of course but he improved and they sent us home with meds and follow ups. His MRI in October showed some improvements so they thought maybe it was not a mass but perhaps Viral Encephalitis. December 12, 2019, he had a similar seizure while playing next door. His sister recognized the symptoms and ran home to get us. Sure enough, it was the same seizure and we rush him to Children’s hospital once again. December 27, 2019 he has a craniotomy to biopsy this mass and January 6, 2020 we get the worst news, it is cancer and it is Grade 3 Glioma Astrocytoma. To make matters worse, the tumor is diffuse so they can only remove a small portion because this monster is intertwined. January 13, 2020 he started radiation and will have 33 treatments with a much needed vacation to Mexico with family the day after his last treatment.
If anyone knows Caleb, you will know that he is tough and brave. He has a very good attitude towards all of this and has not said he is scared once. He is so confident that he keeps reassuring us that he is going to kick Cancers Ass! I think kids have a good sense of what’s going on and so if he isn’t afraid, then I shouldn’t be either.
please keep us in your prayers or send good vibes for healing to our sweet, strong and amazing boy. all of this and has not said he is scared once. He is so confident that he keeps reassuring us that he is going to kick Cancers Ass! I think kids have a good sense of what’s going on and so if he isn’t afraid, then I shouldn’t be either.
please keep us in your prayers or send good vibes for healing to our sweet, strong and amazing boy.
September is a time when all kids are excited for back to school. Just kidding, I think parents are most excited! Second day of school and we get a call that Caleb threw up and we needed to come get him. I got to school and he wouldn’t talk to me or look at me. This made me think that something was wrong or someone teased him etc. After trying to get some answers out him and still no speaking, I took him home and was going to make him comfortable at home. We don’t live far from school so this was weird that within a matter of minutes, he went from not talking to slurring and confused. His pupils were super dilated that I turned around and took him to the ER. He continued to vomit and eventually became paralyzed and his head stuck to the left. They rushed us to Children’s in St Paul and said we believe his in the the middle of a seizure and they will be best to help him. After two rounds of anti seizure meds, he started to come around in the ambulance. They did CT scans, MRIs and EEG. They found a mass in the right temporal lobe. Our hearts sank of course but he improved and they sent us home with meds and follow ups. His MRI in October showed some improvements so they thought maybe it was not a mass but perhaps Viral Encephalitis. December 12, 2019, he had a similar seizure while playing next door. His sister recognized the symptoms and ran home to get us. Sure enough, it was the same seizure and we rush him to Children’s hospital once again. December 27, 2019 he has a craniotomy to biopsy this mass and January 6, 2020 we get the worst news, it is cancer and it is Grade 3 Glioma Astrocytoma. To make matters worse, the tumor is diffuse so they can only remove a small portion because this monster is intertwined. January 13, 2020 he started radiation and will have 33 treatments with a much needed vacation to Mexico with family the day after his last treatment.
If anyone knows Caleb, you will know that he is tough and brave. He has a very good attitudeThis will be a long post so hang tight!
September is a time when all kids are excited for back to school. Just kidding, I think parents are most excited! Second day of school and we get a call that Caleb threw up and we needed to come get him. I got to school and he wouldn’t talk to me or look at me. This made me think that something was wrong or someone teased him etc. After trying to get some answers out him and still no speaking, I took him home and was going to make him comfortable at home. We don’t live far from school so this was weird that within a matter of minutes, he went from not talking to slurring and confused. His pupils were super dilated that I turned around and took him to the ER. He continued to vomit and eventually became paralyzed and his head stuck to the left. They rushed us to Children’s in St Paul and said we believe his in the the middle of a seizure and they will be best to help him. After two rounds of anti seizure meds, he started to come around in the ambulance. They did CT scans, MRIs and EEG. They found a mass in the right temporal lobe. Our hearts sank of course but he improved and they sent us home with meds and follow ups. His MRI in October showed some improvements so they thought maybe it was not a mass but perhaps Viral Encephalitis. December 12, 2019, he had a similar seizure while playing next door. His sister recognized the symptoms and ran home to get us. Sure enough, it was the same seizure and we rush him to Children’s hospital once again. December 27, 2019 he has a craniotomy to biopsy this mass and January 6, 2020 we get the worst news, it is cancer and it is Grade 3 Glioma Astrocytoma. To make matters worse, the tumor is diffuse so they can only remove a small portion because this monster is intertwined. January 13, 2020 he started radiation and will have 33 treatments with a much needed vacation to Mexico with family the day after his last treatment.
If anyone knows Caleb, you will know that he is tough and brave. He has a very good attitude towards all of this and has not said he is scared once. He is so confident that he keeps reassuring us that he is going to kick Cancers Ass! I think kids have a good sense of what’s going on and so if he isn’t afraid, then I shouldn’t be either.
please keep us in your prayers or send good vibes for healing to our sweet, strong and amazing boy. all of this and has not said he is scared once. He is so confident that he keeps reassuring us that he is going to kick Cancers Ass! I think kids have a good sense of what’s going on and so if he isn’t afraid, then I shouldn’t be either.
please keep us in your prayers or send good vibes for healing to our sweet, strong and amazing boy.
Co-organizers (3)
Anna Case
Organizer
Shakopee, MN
Rayna Rogers
Beneficiary
Jeremy Rogers
Co-organizer