Thumbs Up For Team Max

03/13/2026

This long-legged warrior tried something new today. Track & field season is here and I’m just glad he’s trying all the things. 💙🙏💛

03/11/2026

💙🙏💛

03/10/2026

Stable scan! Grateful, thankful, relieved. 🙏💚 Thank you to all our prayer warriors!

03/09/2026

Appointments all day today and tomorrow. Spine MRI tonight. Praying for stability - or even better - improvement. Humbly ask for all the prayers and positivity for this amazingly strong kiddo. 💙🙏💛

03/04/2026

Mr. Max shared his story tonight at a WHAS Crusade for Children event sponsored by Shirley's Way. We met a lot of people who’ve been following his story since his diagnosis more than two years ago, and it’s always so humbling to meet followers and prayer warriors. Those prayers have kept us afloat during our roughest days, and it brings us to tears to know he’s continually touching lives.

He is the absolute bravest, strongest person I know and we are so, so proud of him in everything he does. Thank you, Crusade, for all you do for our family and so many others! 💙🙏💛

02/28/2026

Two years ago today was the beginning of the hopeful signs that Max was winning his battle with medulloblastoma. I remember sitting on the floor of our closet after the call and just sobbing with relief. Just one week after this glorious report, he started having trouble walking. And now here we are. Still so very grateful, but we must continue to fight for better treatments for all children everywhere.

Today our hearts are full of gratitude. Scanxiety is a real thing and we’ve all gotten way too familiar, but today, the gratitude far outweighs any other emotion.

Max’s MRI scans look great. 🙏💙 We learned this news early this evening and had conversations with both his oncologist and radiologist. The scans show the treatment is working. The spots from his spine and brain are no longer “enhancing” (this is the term used for cancer showing on MRIs - enhancement - I’ve always found this grossly ironic.) The spots that presented themselves so quickly after initial surgery and diagnosis back in August and September no longer show up on the scan.

There are no words to adequately express how this feels…to know our strong warrior is fighting this battle and winning. There is also nothing that can truly describe the waiting that precedes these results. It’s gut wrenching. But today, everything was worth the wait. And while the battle is far from over, we are taking this victory and pausing to celebrate how far Max has come. He is tired, but he is pushing through. His little body is exhausted and there’s still a long road in front of him. Yet never once today did he show an ounce of fear. While they inserted his IV - even then! - he looked me straight in the eye and told me there was nothing to worry about. “We’ve got this, mama.”

We are grateful to God, to Max’s amazing medical team, and to every single person everywhere who has prayed for our family and supported our boy and brought us this far. The world has felt like it was crumbling at times, but not today. Today, we feel nothing but grateful. 💙🙏💛

02/27/2026

Our boy sure loves his kitties. Can we teach them how to be service animals?? That would be the best of both worlds. 💙🙏💛

02/18/2026

Happy to report that Maxson’s labwork on Monday looked pretty good. While his kidney function continues to be negatively impacted by the Avastin infusions, this time the labs showed slight improvement. We’re calling it a win. 🏆

His oncology team has ordered his next MRI for early March (date tbd.) If we get lucky and see stability of his spinal cord, we’ll begin the final phase of the Avastin wean, going to monthly infusions and then hopefully done by summertime. No one knows quite what to expect - Max’s case is so rare and complex - but we are hopeful for no more functional decline. 🙏

We get today and tomorrow at home and then we’re off to Birmingham for wheelchair basketball regionals. So proud of our through all the things life throws at him, and leaning into the hope and prayer that someday soon, our trips to Cincinnati won’t be quite so prevalent. Thankful to everyone following, sending good wishes, saying prayers and keeping him close in spirit. Let’s go ! 💙🙏💛

02/16/2026

Max & Mama adventures at the hospital the next two days. Today is infusion day (hopefully) but waiting on labs. Say a prayer for this brave kiddo! 💙🙏💛

02/15/2026

Today is International Childhood Cancer Day. If you haven’t been touched by this devastating disease, consider yourself lucky.

Our boy is 21 months cancer-free. He’ll reach milestone year two in May, and we couldn’t be more grateful. But the things it has relentlessly stripped from our lives - from Maxson’s life - are utterly horrible.

Just because the disease is gone, doesn’t mean the fear is gone, or the unspeakable side effects, or the day-to-day reality that our lives are forever changed.

We have to do more to save the lives of our children. Just because it’s uncomfortable, please don’t stop talking about it. Awareness leads to funding. Funding leads to research. Research leads to better treatments, and that leads to more lives saved.

We will never stop fighting. 💙🙏💛

02/11/2026

This.

02/09/2026

This brave kiddo tried something new yesterday. 💛🎿❤️‍🩹

If you know Max, you probably know his favorite sport outside of baseball is skiing. Three months before his diagnosis, he was skiing black diamonds in Steamboat, Colorado. He’s been on skis since he was five, skiing locally with Beau, friends, and his youth group whenever he could and conquering mountains out west annually.

On Saturday, he tried sit-skiing for the first time at Perfect North Slopes. His favorite physical therapist from Cincinnati Children's was there to help which was a huge gift (and a good motivator…he’s always worked his hardest for her.) He had been hesitant to try it. He loved being on the mountain so much as a skier and he was just afraid it would be too different. We didn’t push, acknowledged the fears and left it to him.

Well, he loved it. “It was a little hard…but only because it was new…I just have to learn it.” 💛❤️‍🩹💛 Beau was with him the entire time and said the smiles were big! Max says he’s ready to try the “real mountains” again soon.

Watch out world…this boy is unstoppable. 💙🙏💛