A message from Kelly

"On Monday night we went to the emergency room because he had thrown up blood from what we believe was the result of swallowing blood from a nose bleed. Upon further tests and scans we found a large mass on one of his kidneys. We were then transferred to Hershey Med for further testing late Tuesday night. On Wednesday he had a CT scan and an MRI which showed that the mass had spread to his other kidney, lungs and some rib bones. On Thursday he had a biopsy done to figure out what this mass/spread was and today we got the diagnoses: Burkitt Lymphoma, a rare but highly aggressive and fast growing lymphoma. We are so fortunate to have been able to catch this when we did and had we not gone to the ER on Monday for something unrelated we would have had no idea because Carter was showing no symptoms that we would have questioned as unusual. Our little boy is a trooper and he is the strongest kid we know. He is brave and he is a fighter. Tomorrow we start our treatment journey with his first day of chemotherapy and we will beat this! We truly appreciate all the love we have received this week through everything and know that we have the biggest support team backing us up. Together we will get through this and Carter is going to kick cancer in the butt!! Carter, you have no idea how much you are loved and we will do anything and everything we can for our baby ❤️"

CARTER UPDATE 9/15

Carter started his first full dose round of chemo on 9/10 and he got his last chemo treatment for this round today, 9/15. He crushed it! Having minimal side effects and staying in good spirits throughout the week. We are so proud of our little guy, he has shown nothing but strength and resilience thus far and we are staying positive hoping that attitude will continue throughout his next couple rounds of chemo. The plan as it sits right now is to have a week of recovery before he starts his second round of chemo and we are keeping our fingers crossed that he might be able to spend a few nights at home during that recovery period! If that’s the case, he would be readmitted to the hospital to start his second round. We wanted to give a huge THANK YOU to all of our supporters, we would be lost without you and I couldn’t imagine going through this without the constant love we have received ❤️ We got this! #carterstrong