Via Macon Com:
Five-year-old Jaxon Baumgard fought a rare type of cancer for about two years.
Doctors diagnosed the Arvada, Colorado, boy with Ewings Sarcoma — a cancer that started in one of his bones, but quickly spread to his lungs — in April of 2016, according to a GoFundMe page set up by his family.
“We were confident that we had found this just in time,” the GoFundMe says. “They had surgery to remove part of his bone in his leg which removed the whole tumor.
“After doing chemo and radiation, scans showed that his tumors were pretty much gone in his lungs,” the post continues. “They had all completely shrunk and stayed the same size for a few scans so they thought for sure it was just scars in his lungs.”
But in July 2017, the cancer came back — and it was more serious this time, the post states.
He started on a chemo treatment, and it was working, his aunt, Taylor Baumgard Chapman, said in the post.
In March of this year, Jaxon got a bone marrow transplant. But it didn’t work, Chapman wrote, and his chemo treatment was no longer working.
“Our hearts were completely broken, dreams were shattered and my brother and sister in law were forced to sit down with hospice and make really hard and life changing choices,” Chapman said. “Jaxons cancer is really bad, and with a continued study drug, the doctors give him until the end of this year.”
That was until eight days ago, when Jaxon went in for more scans.
“The scans weren’t good, his lungs are filled with cancer,” Chapman wrote in a GoFundMe update. “The cancer is so bad it has started to push his heart and trachea, and his lungs are filled with blood.”
Doctors said they don’t expect Jaxon to make it through the next month, Chapman said.
“They predict that he may only have a week left with us where he is ‘here,’ the rest of the time, he will probably just be sleeping,” his aunt wrote just over a week ago.
With the terminal diagnosis coming just before the holiday season, Jaxon’s family decided to make the holidays come early this year, Amanda Baumgard told Denver7.
“Celebrating all the holidays together as a family is super important to us,” Jaxon’s mom, Amanda, told the TV station.
So, last weekend, Colorado-based Project Nerd, a “destination for geek and pop-culture,” helped plan a trick-or-treating event with Jaxon’s family and Colorado Ghostbusters, “a social cosplay charity group raising money for good causes.”
The groups asked all the businesses in Old Town Arvada to help with the event, and “every single one of them said yes,” Iggy Michniacki, Project Nerd founder, told 9News.
Then, on Saturday, Halloween was officially in Arvada.
And Jaxon got to wear an “incredible” costume thanks to Walkin’ & Rollin’ Costumes, a Kansas-based nonprofit that makes free wheelchair costumes for children with special needs.