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The St. If you see a photo on StBaldricks. Honored Kid Nathan Pennington. Diagnosis Brain or spinal cord tumor. Date of Diagnosis April Status Passed away. Change your kid's logo. Cancel Save. My Story. I was diagnosed with high-risk medulloblastoma on April 25, There were three tumors - two in my brain and one on my spine.
I had surgery at Children's Hospital of Illinois to remove one tumor and then went to Chicago for 31 proton radiation treatments. I developed serious complications and spent two weeks in the ICU at Lurie Children's Hospital, followed by two weeks on the oncology floor after a blood clot was found in my brain.
In August I began six rounds of chemo at the St. Jude Midwest Affiliate in Peoria. My last dose of chemo was given on February 14, My bone marrow is still struggling to recover; I usually spend three days a week at clinic for labs and support. In the last year and a half I have spent almost nights in a hospital and received over almost transfusions of platelets and red blood cells.
