"PATRICK"

Welcome to Patrick's web page. It has been provided to keep friends and family updated on Patrick's progress.

Patrick is 6 years old. He lives with his mom, Shawn and his sister Olyvea who is 1 1/2. Patrick also has two half brothers, Zach 2, and Jonathan 1, with his father William and his step-mom, Melissa.

Patrick is in Kindergarten at Redwood Elementry, he is also a sparrow at his school. Club Northwest sponsered Patrick and all his friends at school have come together to show their love and support for Patrick by doing community service and fundraisers to earn money to help him and his family fight this evil battle. So far Patrick has gone to school 9 whole days this year!

Our story starts on the warm afternoon of September 15th,2004; we went to the grocery store to get some things for dinner. While I was putting Patrick's baby sister in the car he came to me red faced and said, mom I fell down. I looked at Patrick and said, "well your not bleeding anywhere, your fine, get in the car and buckle up". About four miles down the road Patrick bursted into tears and said he was hurting real bad. I pulled the car over and told him to show me where, he pointed to a red area around his groin. When we got home he said he didn't feel good and went straight to his room and curled up in a ball in bed. Later on at dinner time I found him vomitting in the bathroom, and later that night woke up to him crying in pain in bed. I talked to Shawn and we figured maybe he hurt his groin muscle. So the next morning I called the pediatrician, they wanted him in right away. The pediatrician wanted to run some test and thought that maybe Patrick injured his liver in the fall. An hour later Patrick was curled up on my lap sleeping in the waiting room of the hospital. Then I saw the radiology tech dart from his office and scury to the ER. He came back with a wheel chair and said he wanted Patrick to lay down in a bed. Ten minutes later the pediatrician came into the room. He asked me to sit down, the look on his face is one that will be burned into my mind forever. He said that Patrick had a large tumor on his kidney, and when he fell down the tumor errupted and Patrick was bleeding internally. I thought for a minute and asked how bad is the bleeding? He replied, we think it's almost stopped but right now were concerned about the tumor. I said o.k so we need to get it out right? An hour later we began a five hour ambulance ride to Portland Oregon. On September 19,04 Patrick had a surgery to remove a tumor the size of his head, his right kidney and six lymphnodes. September 23,04 Patrick was diagnosed with Wilms' Tumor Stage IV unfavorable histiology. A CAT scan also showed a tumor on Patricks left lung. The Dx gave Patrick twenty seven weeks of chemotherapy and eight days of radiation to his chest and abdomen.
CAT scans on Febuary 18th,2005 have shown no detectable cancer at this point.

April 13th 2005 "Patrick the Great" earned his wings to heaven. His battle is over, his pain is gone, now he can run and play with the angels and watch over us all!
Mom and Dad love you my sweet boy!

Thank You for visiting and getting to know...
"Patrick the Great"!

Journal

Thursday, December 6, 2007 6:15 PM CST

This is for your birthday Patrick! You would be 9 this year, I miss you so much my heart hurts when I think about it! Every morning I open my eyes I miss you!

If I had one more day with you,
I would open my eyes with a smile on my face for the first time in 2 and half years! I would sit on the front porch and smile and cheer you on as you rode your bike from one end of the yard to the other. I would chat with you while you played with your tonka trucks in the mud and raced your hot wheels around in the dirt.
I would ask you what the tiger in heaven said to you when you talked to him!!!
I miss your stories and your excitement. I miss the twinkle in your eye and your charm! I miss the scary and silly faces that you make!
I miss seeing you kiss your baby sister!!
I miss the way you smell and I miss your big monster hugs!
If I had one more day, I would kiss your soft little cheek until I smoothered you!
I miss you Patrick, not a moment in my life passes that I don't think about you!
Your sister told me the other day when we passed by the airport, that she wishes her and I could fly to heaven so we could visit you for the day!!!!
I wish we could have just one more day too!

Hospital Information:

Patient Room: 10-North

Doernbecher Children's Hospital
3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road mail code: DC 10N
Portland, Oregon 97239
541-418-5100

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