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Owen was diagnosed with medulloblastoma at 10 months old. This is an extremely rare cancer in infants, about 250-500 cases in children under the age of one in the whole country.
He had neurosurgery to remove the tennis ball sized tumor from his brain and then received a drain which let him move from the ICU to a step down floor. He is currently undergoing 6 month-long, in-hospital, cycles of super-intense chemotherapy as he is too young for radiation therapy. A procedure was done to extract Owen’s stem cells which will be used to rescue Owen after the final three rounds of super-aggressive chemotherapy that will wipe out 100% of his immune system. These harvested stem cells will, at that point, be used to save Owen’s life.
Owen’s mom has had to step down from her position as a long-time pharmacist at Baylor in order to accommodate Owen’s unpredictable and ever-changing hospital admissions, outpatient chemo protocols, repeat MRI & CT scans, and bone marrow transplants.
Owen has two sisters at home and a brother on the way in November.
Expenses are growing hourly, day in and day out.
If you would consider being a hero to Owen and to the Hooper family, it would mean the world to us.
He had neurosurgery to remove the tennis ball sized tumor from his brain and then received a drain which let him move from the ICU to a step down floor. He is currently undergoing 6 month-long, in-hospital, cycles of super-intense chemotherapy as he is too young for radiation therapy. A procedure was done to extract Owen’s stem cells which will be used to rescue Owen after the final three rounds of super-aggressive chemotherapy that will wipe out 100% of his immune system. These harvested stem cells will, at that point, be used to save Owen’s life.
Owen’s mom has had to step down from her position as a long-time pharmacist at Baylor in order to accommodate Owen’s unpredictable and ever-changing hospital admissions, outpatient chemo protocols, repeat MRI & CT scans, and bone marrow transplants.
Owen has two sisters at home and a brother on the way in November.
Expenses are growing hourly, day in and day out.
If you would consider being a hero to Owen and to the Hooper family, it would mean the world to us.
Organizer and beneficiary
Katie Hooper
Beneficiary