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Kenny is a 16 year old boy that's a junior at ILHS, and lives with his mom, Carol, and sister, Haley. His father passed away 2 years ago in August from stage 4 lung cancer. Things have been incredibly hard in the past 2 years because Jerry was the main provider for the family.
Carol started working but Kenny started to get very sick, in and out of the doctors. He had blood drawn on his visit to the doctors & the results came back that he had a white blood cell count of 0. On 10/22 Kenny was rushed to Dartmouth Hitchcock hospital because of having no blood cells, he was there for 8 days. Between many blood cultures taken & a bone marrow biopsy, there were no conclusive results pointing them into the direction of a diagnosis. He was given an anti biotic that seemed to help bring his white cell count up to 500, at which point he was discharged to go home.
Days went on where Kenny still felt very tired and not himself, doing half days of school and some days he couldn't even get out of bed. He tried to go to school 11/23 but was sent home with a fever which brought him back to the doctors to get blood drawn. Results came back Monday night that his cells were back down to 0, this time he was taken to Boston Children's Hospital. They also took blood cultures and did a bone marrow biopsy, and Wednesday night they broke the news that they had found cancer cells in Kenny's bone barrow. He was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on 11/25/15. This was such a shock and the doctors told him that he would be starting chemo that Friday in forms of steroids, shots & IV. He will be in Boston Children's Hospital for a month to be monitored but his chemo treatment will be 2 years long. However, when he is released he will still have to come back & forth to Boston very frequently for treatment.
As you can imagine this is a huge financial burden on a family that was already struggling trying to recover from the passing of Jerry only two years ago. Carol has been in Boston staying with Kenny which means she's not able to work right now. Haley goes back and forth between Boston and home so she can still be working to ease the financial burden on Carol of the every day expenses of gas, food, utilities, etc. These are expenses we all deal with but on top of all of this, they now have the ENORMOUS medical expenses ahead of them along with the cost of Carol having to buy meals every day, pay for parking in the gargage at Children's Hospital, gas and wear and tear of getting back and forth from Meredith NH to Boston for the next two years.
Anything donated will help & be greatly appreciated, especially at this time of year! This family has been through more than we could ever imagine so the more we can spread the word, hopefully the more can be raised so Carol & Haley can concentrate on being there for Kenny.
PLEASE PLEASE donate and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, share this with as many people as possible.
thank you!!!
Carol started working but Kenny started to get very sick, in and out of the doctors. He had blood drawn on his visit to the doctors & the results came back that he had a white blood cell count of 0. On 10/22 Kenny was rushed to Dartmouth Hitchcock hospital because of having no blood cells, he was there for 8 days. Between many blood cultures taken & a bone marrow biopsy, there were no conclusive results pointing them into the direction of a diagnosis. He was given an anti biotic that seemed to help bring his white cell count up to 500, at which point he was discharged to go home.
Days went on where Kenny still felt very tired and not himself, doing half days of school and some days he couldn't even get out of bed. He tried to go to school 11/23 but was sent home with a fever which brought him back to the doctors to get blood drawn. Results came back Monday night that his cells were back down to 0, this time he was taken to Boston Children's Hospital. They also took blood cultures and did a bone marrow biopsy, and Wednesday night they broke the news that they had found cancer cells in Kenny's bone barrow. He was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on 11/25/15. This was such a shock and the doctors told him that he would be starting chemo that Friday in forms of steroids, shots & IV. He will be in Boston Children's Hospital for a month to be monitored but his chemo treatment will be 2 years long. However, when he is released he will still have to come back & forth to Boston very frequently for treatment.
As you can imagine this is a huge financial burden on a family that was already struggling trying to recover from the passing of Jerry only two years ago. Carol has been in Boston staying with Kenny which means she's not able to work right now. Haley goes back and forth between Boston and home so she can still be working to ease the financial burden on Carol of the every day expenses of gas, food, utilities, etc. These are expenses we all deal with but on top of all of this, they now have the ENORMOUS medical expenses ahead of them along with the cost of Carol having to buy meals every day, pay for parking in the gargage at Children's Hospital, gas and wear and tear of getting back and forth from Meredith NH to Boston for the next two years.
Anything donated will help & be greatly appreciated, especially at this time of year! This family has been through more than we could ever imagine so the more we can spread the word, hopefully the more can be raised so Carol & Haley can concentrate on being there for Kenny.
PLEASE PLEASE donate and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, share this with as many people as possible.
thank you!!!
Organizer
Jane Hoggard
Organizer
Amesbury, MA