Five Years Cancer Free and Still Fighting
Patrick shares his thoughts on becoming a childhood cancer survivor.
Patrick with one of his nurses when he was being treated for pediatric cancer.
I was only able to be a normal 17-year-old boy for three days before I was forced into more responsibility than I ever could have imagined. On September 18, 2006, my life as a high school senior was no longer a priority. I had gone to sleep Sunday night and woke up a few hours later gasping for air.
A lady that would come to be the person that saved my life greeted me in the ER. Non-Hodgkin T cell lymphoma were the words I did not yet understand.
The Cost of a Cure: A Parent’s Perspective
No cost is too high to give our children fighting cancer a cure.
Five-year-old Danny was diagnosed with T cell lymphoblastic lymphoma when he was 2.
The price my son has paid for his road to a cure has been high. He has lost 30-plus months of being a developing child. In those 30 months, we lived at the hospital longer than we were able to be home.
The pain and suffering my son has endured could not accurately be put to words. The mental effects on him have been great and the physical effects have been even greater, with possible long-term or permanent side effects from chemotherapy. I will never know what late effects from treatment he may have until they appear, and I pray that they never come late at night or early one morning and ravage my beautiful little boy.
Going Home: Ryan’s Childhood Cancer Story
Ryan was diagnosed with childhood lymphoma when he was 5 years old. Ryan spent his last days at home in Hawaii before he passed away at the age of 6.
He no longer lives in this house on Robison Lane, but I feel him everywhere. He lives in our hearts now. Ryan was diagnosed with lymphoma on September 29, 2010. Ten months later to the day, he would be gone.
Ryan did well on chemotherapy at first, but then we learned that the giant tumor in his chest was still growing. With no treatment options left, Ryan was going to die. But I wasn’t ready to let go, and neither was Ryan. We found out about a clinical trial in California, and in one last effort to save his life, he was air lifted from Oahu to Los Angeles.
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