Chris

Christopher Schwier was diagnosed with stage 3 high risk neuroblastoma (treated as a stage 4) on 3/14/03 just one month before his 2nd birthday. His tumor was 17x12x9cm. It had compressed his right kidney, displaced his aorta to the right side, incased his ureter, compressed his heart and his lungs. He went through 5 rounds of chemotherapy,surgery to remove the tumor, 1 round of high dose chemo with a stem cell transplant, 14 radiation treatments, and 6 months of accutane at Cardinal Glennon Childrens Hospital in St. Louis MO. He also had 9 rounds of monoclonal antibodies (3f8) at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York. He is currently considered ned (no evidence of disease).
He has two brothers...Brandon (his twin) and Aaron. He also has an older sister named Amanda.

Journal

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 11:37 PM CST

Wow, it;s been a while since my last update. Chris is still doing great. He and Brandon are in the 1st grade. They played soccer in the fall. I got to coach their team. I had a lot of help from the other parents which is good because I don't know much about soccer. All the kids had fun and that's all I cared about. The boys are in cub scouts now and I am one of the den leaders. The boys love all the fun stuff they get to do. We just had our pinewood derby races and Chris got first place (out of about45 kids) overall. Brandon got 5th place in our den. They all got trophies.
Don is enjoying his new job but really hates being away from his family so much.
April 14th will mark the 6th year since Chris was diagnosed. He will be going to New York in March.

God Bless.

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Hospital Information:

Cardinal Glennon Childrens Hosp.

St. Louis, MO

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E-mail Author: donsbug67@yahoo.com

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