Thomas Millaway's Medical Fund

This is for my nephew ....Thomas had started cross country running with his high school team. So after about a month of running when he came home with a pain in his side I didnt really think much of it other than a pulled muscle. Being he was going to school all day and running about three miles a day after school some of it up a very steep hill I also didnt think much of him falling asleep in the recliner after he ate. The pain in his side didnt seem to get better so I decided to take him to the walk in clinic. They thought he might have a collapased lung and sent him for a chest xray. That came back negitave so it was concluded it was a pulled muscle. About a week later he had a severe nose bleed that when I woke up he said had been going on for sometime but didnt want to wake me. I tod him on these things he needed to wake me. We got it stopped and since it was hot and the air was dry figured it was due to that. A few days later he had one in the middle of the night but not bad. Thursday morning I left for work at 5:30, he called me at 7and said his nose bleed had started at 6 and he couldnt get it to stop even tho he had used perixide on a cotton ball. I told him I would leave work and take him to the ER we needed to get this taken care of. Figuring I had my nose caturized at 9 they would do that and we would be on our way. They got it stopped there about 30 minutes after we got there but did blood tests to see if they could find anything. The results came back with very low plateletes, very high white blood cells. The er doctor didnt like this and said we needed to transfer him to Nashville. We got him into Centennial Childrens Hospital. they did further tests which revealed he had Leaukemia. He was doing ok and scheduled to start chemo tomorrow. He passed out while his aunt was staying with him as I went home to get more stuff for his month long at least stay. From there it went downhil and went down fast. His blood pressure was plummeting and his heart rate was around 198. They started giving him medicine to control both. The ventilated him, sedated him and oxygen. They figured from test results they do every 4 hours he was losing blood but didnt know where. Doing a ultra sound they found out he his spleen had ruptured but he was not stable enough to go to surgery to remove it. Because he was losing blood so fast they had to replace it and also gave him plasma and platelets to try and help he blood clot. He ended up getting 13 pints of blood. From the swelling of his stomach from losing the blood into his belly and the pressure the bleeding did stop enough they were able to catch up. Kinda like putting pressure on a wound. They did not expect him to make it through last night. There was a small window this morning after he made it through the night to do the surgery to remove his spleen if they did decide to do it and I agreed for them to. His chance of surviving the surgery was 90 percent he would not survive. I said I would not wonder down the road if he would have survived it to go ahead because with out surgery to remove the spleen he would not make it another 12 to 24 hrs. He did survive but his stomach is still open as they are still removing excess blood. It may take a week before they can close it. His stomach has to be closed before chemo can be started. Less then a week ago I took my what we knew to be a healthy active in sports teenage son to the er room because of a nose bleed. Tonight I sit and watch him through the window as he is sedated, with a breathing tube down his throat and a tube down his nose to suck any fluids from his lungs so he doesnt choke on them. He has tubes running every where from pic lines in his left arm, his left side of his neck and his right leg. AT first we were going to be here for 4 weeks now it of course will be longer with treatments lasting a little more than 3 years just for the chemo... any donations would be appreciated...