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Support for Theo Kramer's Family

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Please help Allie and Mike with support for at-home care, housing support for out-of-town family, childcare for their 5-month-old Remy, meal and grocery support, and other unexpected expenses as they weather this horrific storm. Their three-year-old son, Theo, has been diagnosed with DIPG brain cancer.

We are beyond grateful for your donations, medical advice, recommendations, and loving messages. The outpouring of support has been nothing short of extraordinary. If there are any remaining funds, they will be donated to a DIPG foundation, research, or other families of children with DIPG.

Allie's post on February 4, 2023:

These are the most horrific words I will ever share, and I cannot believe I am writing them. On February 1, our world crashed and fell out from under us. We received the worst news imaginable: our 3 year old son, Theo, has a cancerous brain tumor. Due to its location and spread, it is inoperable, and incurable. It’s called DIPG (diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma), it is rare, and it is highly aggressive. His condition is rapidly deteriorating - in 3 days, he went from playing at school to being mostly in an unresponsive sleep-like state, nonverbal and with minimal motor skills. We began radiation therapy yesterday in hopes that shrinking the tumor will restore his faculties and extend his life by a few more months. We are exploring clinical trials we can enroll him in. But even with these treatments, the prognosis is very bad. We will lose him, it is only a matter of when.

We keep waiting to wake up from this nightmare. We cannot fathom that this is happening. To THEO. Our Theo!! Our endlessly vivacious, passionate, whip-smart, deeply-feeling, wondrous boy. The center of our world. He had been a bit clumsy for a few days. We thought it might be a growth spurt, or some inner-ear vertigo from his latest preschool virus. He was significantly more anxious and irritable than usual, and when we noticed that his speech was slow and slightly slurred on Tuesday afternoon, we brought him to the hospital. And now here we are, sinking deeper into this nightmare every hour.

We don’t know how to survive this. We don’t know how to make it through the months to come. We don’t know how to live in this world without our son.

If you have any connections to doctors who work with DIPG, know parents whose child battled it, or have connections to experimental cancer treatments, please send them our way. We are at Children's Hospital Los Angeles receiving fantastic care, but we want to explore every resource we can. We are in the darkest uncharted waters of our lives.

My darling Theo, light of our lives, we are fighting so damn hard for you. We will do anything we can to fill every day you have left with magic and joy. We will go to the absolute ends of the earth for you, beautiful one.
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Donations 

  • James Waugh
    • $200 
    • 4 mos
  • Lucie Roberts
    • $50 
    • 4 mos
  • Sarah Harkey
    • $50 
    • 4 mos
  • Geneva Hodgson
    • $50 
    • 4 mos
  • Anonymous
    • $50 
    • 4 mos
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Organizer and beneficiary

Joe Sofranko
Organizer
Glendale, CA
Michael Kramer
Beneficiary

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