Mason has always been full of life and loves to make his peers laugh! He enjoys baseball and has been on a team since the age of 4 years old. He has gotten back into sports and is working of gaining his self esteem back! We are so proud of him!
Early last year Mason was experiencing odd symptoms like headaches, dizziness, vomiting and face paralysis. He was diagnosed with Ependymona, a type of brain cancer, on January 11th of 2017.
His treatment plan consisted of a 14 hour brain surgery, 33 radiation treatments, and 5 weeks of intensive inpatient rehab. He had to learn to walk, talk, eat and many more basics again.
We are still healing in many ways. His 7 year old sister lost her family for 5 weeks and still experience sadness and loss around this topic. Mason is terrified of any symptoms related to his diagnosis (which he still experiences frequently through the healing process). We have tried our whole life to protect our children and this diagnosed destroyed our sense of safety and security for our children; no matter what we feed them and how safe we keep them, some things are out of our control!
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