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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Warrior</strong> | 68<br />
69 | <strong>Little</strong> <strong>Warrior</strong><br />
CARTER<br />
Age 5 | Neuroblastoma<br />
<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Warrior</strong> Carter, a.k.a Super Carter, was diagnosed with Acute<br />
Lymphoblastic Leukemia at the young age of four.<br />
On September 25, 2015, Carter had been fighting a week-long fever<br />
and started to become non-responsive. He was rushed to the local<br />
ER, where he was immediately taken for blood work. The blood work<br />
showed that his red blood cells were so low that he risked falling into<br />
a coma and he was sent by ambulance to Helen Devos Children’s<br />
Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI.<br />
Over the next two days, he received several blood transfusions to get<br />
his body healthy enough for a bone marrow aspiration. On September<br />
27, his bone marrow showed that it was full of 85% Leukemia cells. He<br />
received his first chemo that very same day and underwent surgery to<br />
have a port placed in his chest. He will have a total of 3 years and 4<br />
months of chemotherapy.<br />
Throughout all of the “pokies”, sedations, and pills, Carter is always<br />
smiling! He takes it all in stride and loves his doctors and nurses. When<br />
he grows up, he’d like to be a police officer and a pediatric oncology<br />
nurse. He says he wants to keep people safe, but also give kids their<br />
chemo so that he can tell them how to not be afraid. He loves police<br />
officers, superheroes, and making people laugh.<br />
Follow Carter’s journey at www.supercarter.com
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