10 Years Ago.

Happy Birthday....

Matthew looked like this 10 years ago. This photo doesnt do it justice When Matthew was born he had white peach fuz down his little cheek bones he reminded me of a little old man.. His first year of life was rough. at 2weeks he had bronchitus which took him forever to get over.. and then at six months during a rountine check up they discovered he was really low on iron and they could not figure out why... so for a spell he started to become healthy and then the unthinkable happend..

When he was 10months old we a took him for a ear infection and the doc. noticed that he had a large mass on his left side and ordered a xray so we had to feed him some contrast after the xray the next step was and ultra sound i remember the diognois like it was yesterday its CANCER i said what how can a 10 month old baby have cancer.. Can you say neroblastoma.. yeah it took us a while to learn how to say it so we went to columbia Childerns hospital and they took good care of us..of course the first 48 hrs were the worst and did i mention this happend on my husbands birthday Dec 23 poor matthew spent his first Chirstmas pretty much sedated i think i really hated that Christmas not being with my other childern Heather and Jeremy who was only 3 so to make a long story short he needed only 4 rounds of chemo to shrink the tumor we were really blessed the caner had not spread through his little body and luckly the tumor was discoverd before his 1st birthday otherwise his chances would have been cut in half so i guess you can call him our little mircle child....We have been so blessed to have him he is such a sweet- very imanginative boy who loves everyone if you ever need a friend there is always matthew...check back soon for some picture of him through the years..