In March of this year, my son Brekkan, now 9 months old, had a tumor on his right kidney. The tumor had grown very large in size and we were sent to Children's hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After scans confirmed, he had surgery a few days later to remove his right kidney. The hospital sent the tumor to the laboratory and it came back to be a Wilms tumor. 

He is having more testing to check genetics to see what could be causing it, but for now they're going to watch it and do scans every couple months to make sure no other tumors grow. This has caused delays for Brekkan achieving milestones and consistently going to physical therapy, chiropractic care and other appointments to help him continue to grow a healthy way. 

This has been really hard on the family. I've had to take off work for the surgery, appointments and healing period. It's hard to catch up on bills and all the things my kids need. He has a brother, Braxton, who is 2, and has been great support during this time, but also hard because he has to be at all the appointments too. It doesn't seem real still at times and has been really hard. Even though we have support, we are still learning to adjust and truly taking it one day at a time. Thank you.