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In February 2005, a healthy, active, almost 3-year-old began having difficulty walking. Within another two months, he was no longer able to squat, bend his knees, walk up or down stairs and he was having severe lower extremity pain. All of his lab work was normal, bone scan was normal and an MRI of his spine was normal. However, on May 12, 2005 an MRI of the brain turned up abnormal. It was another two weeks in the hospital before we got the diagnosis, AML of the Central Nervous System. Eleven days after starting the first round of chemo, my son suffered a devastating brain hemorrhage that left him unable to use the left side of his body and began what was to be a 2 ½ month stay in the intensive care unit. He suffered another hemorrhage during that time, from which he developed hydrocephalus and how was a shunt. He transferred to Scottish Rite's inpatient rehab unit where he stayed for three weeks and was able to make some pretty incredible progress. We made it home for the first time in five months on October 6, 2005 for a short visit, and then it was back to Egleston for g-tube surgery then more chemo. Treatments ended with the last radiation therapy on January 26, 2006. Since then, he has regained the ability to speak, eat, laugh, crawl, walk (with assistance), think and play. The deficits on the left side of his body are becoming less noticeable everyday and he never fails to amaze his therapists or us with his will and determination. He has not yet been declared to be in remission, but we are hopeful for the day when cancer is considered to be a 100% curable disease. This is Walker's story.
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