Khalids Journey w/ Childhood Cancer

This is a little picture journey of my grandson Khalids battle with Neuroblastoma Khalid was born on July 6th, 2005 and was diagnosed with Stage IV Neuroblastoma on March 26th, 2008. He has 6 brothers, Eric, Tyree, Korey, Basir, Brandon and Ahmad, and two sisters, Erica and Alina. Khalid's little body has endured, 3 echocardiogram, 4 abdominal x-rays, 7 CT scans, 1 bone scan, 3 mIBG scan, 2 renalgram, more blood tests than I can count, 7 blood transfusions, 3 platelet transfusion, 3 minor surgeries, 4 bone marrow aspirations, 1 stem cell pheresis, 1 major surgery(8 hrs of it), and 6 rounds of chemotherapy, 1 autogolus stem cell transplant, 2 placements and 1 removal of a port a cath, placement of a hickman catheter, loss some high frequency hearing and loss of his left kidney function. He has also lost the vision in one eye. He has endured 14 cycles of radiation(over 7days), He has had 3f8 treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in NYC and is currently NED & was recently declared HAMA positive. Sloan Kettering has amended the protocol and they will continue to test him periodically until his HAMA(immunity to the meds) goes down and continue treatment then. www.caringbridge.org/visit/khalidamos