I just came to post of little Bradley's passing and see it has already been posted. My heart breaks for that family, but I am thankful that Bradley is now enjoying life eternal, free of pain and sickness.

Strong, heart-felt prayers going out for little Bradley, his family, and those who love them. Sandy, the care page link didn't work (it said I had to be a registered member). I can't even imagine the pain the family is going through. Wishing/praying for a full recovery, Hugs, SadieSaide

This was from last night: "Little Man Posted 12 hours ago is finally peaceful and sleeping again. Back on the morphine to keep him calm. otherwise he is restless and crying. He can have that every 2 hours. The meds they started him on can cause this but they took away the loratab as it masks his temp. Still no word on the cultures. Pretty crazy. Hopefully, they come back soon w/ something, hopefully, it is nothing but i at least would like to know that. Please pray tonight for our new friend from here that is about Bradleys age who got to go home tonight:) one day that will be us. Though they did reassure me today that i get to practice playing nurse and learn how to give shots on tomatoes and oranges before i leave here so i can give them to Bradley when we do go home. I tried to make it clear to them that i am scared of needles. i have to close my eyes whenever i have gotten them or had blood drawn. When they give him shots i look away while holding his hand. SO this should be interesting. I asked if most parents cry the first time and are dramatic so i won't feel like the worst parent in the world:) They just basiscally nicely explained that as a parent you do what ever is necessary to save your kids life. They have a point and guess i'll learn to look at a needle. Anyways, his temp is still hanging on. Please keep up the prayers and your support has been awesome:)Pray for Bradley and Grandma tomorrow as we will both be at work for the first time and she is in charge:)" And an older update: he still has a temp. They have him now on the strongest meds possible. We don't have the final reports in but we don't have time to wait. His temp is not dropping. So as the nurse said they have called in the big guns to kick this. Lol...whatever works right? And i was not mistaken, there is no chemo this Friday. So that confusion was straightened up. Thank God for that and now we are just focusing on getting his numbers up so that we can get the shunt put in. He sat on my lap for 2 hours and cuddled. That was good for me and him. So back to work tomorrow. We really don't think the dr would do the surgery tomorrow afternoon so we should be safe. The earliest would be Friday i think. Then i'm sure if need be they would do it on the weekend in this type of situation too as we are going against time here. Thus meaning they have had the external drain in for over 10 days and now we are pushing the limits on going for about a month. Keep praying that his white count starts boosting up so he can do this surgery. He is now starting to lose what hair has grown back from the surgeries. Kinda crazy. I thought it would not bother me as he has it shaved but seeing it all over his pillow did make me sad. The reality of it. Keep up the prayers. He made such HUGE steps on Monday...and now it is not so good. :( Please keep him in your prayers! Thanks!! If you would like to send another card, I will post the link for that too. Bradley Allen Blank Children's Hospital 1200 Pleasant Street Des Moines, IA 50309 Here is a link that might be useful: Online Card For Bradley

No, they didn't get all the cancer. They are doing chemo right now. They will be going to MN Mayo clinic in a couple of weeks to see what they say and if they think they can get more of the tumor. At some point, it will be about 10 weeks of radiation where he will have to be in the hospital for all of that. He is way ahead of where any of the Dr. expected him to be at this point, so he is a pretty amazing miracle! They had a very good benefit last week, they brought in alot of money to help the family...but it will be a very long haul for this family.