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To the incredible person reading this,
I want to thank you for your interest in this amazing little boy. Christian is a perfect child dealt a hideously imperfect hand.
The misfortune beginning at a young age, at two years old he was diagnosed with epilepsy that stunted his mental and physical growth quickly leading him into special needs classes. When the seizures stopped, we thought the time spent in hospitals were over even though we knew his hardships in normal life would never be easy as a differently abled child. We never thought he would be burdened with something so much worse. Our greatest nightmare... Cancer.
Now, at 13 years old, Christian has been diagnosed with an incredibly rare liver cancer called hepatoblastoma that is only found in less than one in one million children. And for this to occur in a child older than five years old is "too infrequent to be calculated". He is about to go through extensive treatment to try to destroy the tumor and save his life. The tumor in his liver is the size of a cantaloupe causing a myriad of worries. It is pushing around his other organs, has potential to cut off blood flow to his heart, and has entangled itself in two of his major arteries. There are spots on his lungs, but they have not been checked quite yet due to the pressing issue the tumor in his liver is causing. We have to make sure that shrinks first.
We have never been so heartbroken and terrified and I speak for my whole family by saying thank you for your help. With the impending future so uncertain, we have no where to turn but to the support of friends and family.
We ask that along with anything you are able to give, you keep our little monkey man in your thoughts and prayers. We want nothing more than for Christian to defeat this and become the healthy, playful, funny, loud, and sassy boy we know him to be.
Every dollar donated is going directly to help his mother with his medical costs for treatment, and everything we do not need will be donated to further the awareness and research of this rare disease, so every little bit helps. We can’t thank you enough.
His big sissy,
Brooke
I want to thank you for your interest in this amazing little boy. Christian is a perfect child dealt a hideously imperfect hand.
The misfortune beginning at a young age, at two years old he was diagnosed with epilepsy that stunted his mental and physical growth quickly leading him into special needs classes. When the seizures stopped, we thought the time spent in hospitals were over even though we knew his hardships in normal life would never be easy as a differently abled child. We never thought he would be burdened with something so much worse. Our greatest nightmare... Cancer.
Now, at 13 years old, Christian has been diagnosed with an incredibly rare liver cancer called hepatoblastoma that is only found in less than one in one million children. And for this to occur in a child older than five years old is "too infrequent to be calculated". He is about to go through extensive treatment to try to destroy the tumor and save his life. The tumor in his liver is the size of a cantaloupe causing a myriad of worries. It is pushing around his other organs, has potential to cut off blood flow to his heart, and has entangled itself in two of his major arteries. There are spots on his lungs, but they have not been checked quite yet due to the pressing issue the tumor in his liver is causing. We have to make sure that shrinks first.
We have never been so heartbroken and terrified and I speak for my whole family by saying thank you for your help. With the impending future so uncertain, we have no where to turn but to the support of friends and family.
We ask that along with anything you are able to give, you keep our little monkey man in your thoughts and prayers. We want nothing more than for Christian to defeat this and become the healthy, playful, funny, loud, and sassy boy we know him to be.
Every dollar donated is going directly to help his mother with his medical costs for treatment, and everything we do not need will be donated to further the awareness and research of this rare disease, so every little bit helps. We can’t thank you enough.
His big sissy,
Brooke