Connor was diagnosed with a Wilms Tumor (Kidney Cancer) at 4 1/2 years old, Since that time we still continue our fight EVERYDAY...
Connor was officially declared a survivor when he recently hit the 10 year mark from Diagnosis. Connor pulls such strength from his cancer journey and carries it through his everyday life. He has realized as he's gotten older how brave and strong you have to be to get through all that, I'm so grateful for that strength! Connor continues to be in special classes due to his memory function, which has made school and social life difficult, but even now in HS his learning and ability to retain things has improved greatly. He continues to be in an out of the hospital, not all due to cancer but because of cancer we found other things that Connor needed, and for that we are thankful. This is forever with us and forever a part of Connor now, but he is finally learning not to let Cancer define who he is, and just let it be a part of WHO he is. We may not have known it in the moment or at the time, but he's realized, and I most certainly have realized that his journey, as rough as it was, was one of the lucky ones
