We Knew Something Was Very Wrong.

When our 4-year-old started using a different hand to eat dinner we knew something was very wrong.

In January 2019, our son Thomas (then 4 years old) began complaining of headaches and needed more help with balancing activities. When he started using a different hand to eat dinner we knew something was very wrong. After thoughtful assessment of his situation, the wonderful team at Gunnison Valley Hospital had Thomas transferred via ambulance to Children\’s Hospital Colorado, where a large mass was discovered in his brain. Following a successful 6-hour surgery, we soon learned his diagnosis — Medulloblastoma — an aggressive grade-four brain cancer. Scientific advances have yielded good curative treatment options for his sub-type of Medulloblastoma, but those treatments proved long and difficult for such a young child. During 16 months of intensive treatment our family was often split between Gunnison, Houston, and Denver, and we learned quickly that we could not do this on our own.