Please help support Tracie and her 8-year-old son Kaiden in his fight with relapsed Pediatric Brain Cancer (Medulloblastoma, Group 3, Stage 4).
Kaiden was only 6 years old when he was diagnosed with brain cancer on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. Kaiden was just a few weeks into 1st grade when he had several weeks of random headaches causing him to cry and scream, as well as sporadic vomiting that seemed to have no reason. This was concerning, so his parents got him in for a PCP check-up. During this appointment, the PCP noted Kaiden's overall exam to be normal with slight changes in his vision. Kaiden's PCP sent a referral to the eye doctor and ordered a CT scan since she was unable to determine why he was having crying fits with headaches and vomiting. His PCP made note that while waiting for his CT scan to be approved, if his headaches got worse during the weekend, to take him to the ER. When Sunday came around, Kaiden did have a small headache during Sunday School and ended up vomiting on the way out of the Church. Kaiden was acting fine after that and had a normal rest of the day....
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2024 - STARTED OUT LIKE A NORMAL WEEKDAY, KAIDEN'S DAD TOOK HIM TO SCHOOL AND ALL SEEMED WELL. AT 10 AM, THE SCHOOL WAS CALLING HIS DAD SAYING KAIDEN WAS VOMITING AND NEEDED TO BE PICKED UP. AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS ON THE PHONE WITH THE SCHOOL, TRACIE WAS RECEIVING A CALL FROM HIS PCP TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THE CT SCAN HAD BEEN APPROVED. TRACIE TOLD THE PCP THAT KAIDEN GOT SICK OVER THE WEEKEND AND JUST NOW AT SCHOOL. HIS PCP SAID, "GO STRAIGHT TO THE HOSPITAL TO GET THE CT SCAN." THEN AT 12:17 PM, LIFE-SHATTERING NEWS - KAIDEN HAS BRAIN CANCER!
Fast forward to Dec. 31, 2025 - The Medulloblastoma, the cruel brain cancer, returns. Wasn't it enough for Kaiden to endure the numerous surgeries for tumor removal, shunt placement, spinal taps, port for treatments (chemotherapy and radiation), and a G-tube for nutrition? Thinking he could be a normal kid again, but he relapsed. So on Jan. 20, 2026, Kaiden started a trial to hopefully shrink or at least stop the cancer from growing. That trial did not work and it was stopped on March 17, 2026, due to further progression. Now the oncologists are trying to get Kaiden into various trials, but Kaiden's pediatric brain cancer is so rare that the studies and trials that do exist are all in different stages of development and none completed, making them very limited with strict criteria that have to be met before accepting him.
They live with me now because of the living circumstances in their previous home. I've watched his mom stretch roughly $500 for an entire month to provide for Kaiden and herself just on daily living expenses. Please help Kaiden and his mom. Help her have one less thing to worry about because Tracie deserves to have the ability and resources to spend precious time with Kaiden making memories to cherish.
"NO CHILD SHOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS, AND NO PARENT SHOULD HAVE TO FACE IT ALONE"
Please search your heart and help if you can. Most of all, please pray for them.