I salute the man that he would have become.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt">9-Year-Old Boy 'Done' With Cancer Treatments</span></span>
"I'm done with this," Ryan Kennedy told his mother. After five years of fighting a rare form of brain cancer, with seven surgeries, four rounds of chemotherapy and two bouts of radiation, the 9-year-old from Clarkston, Mich. said he had enough.
In February, Ryan's mother told him about another surgery that doctors said would buy him about three more months, but potentially could leave him on a breathing and feeding tube, according to the Oakland Press.
"When I told him about it, he said, 'No. I told you, Mom, I don't want to do anything anymore,'" Kimberly Morris-Karp told the Oakland Press. "He literally screamed and cried in hysterics, saying 'I'm done. I'm done with this.'
"The selfish part of me wanted to say, 'No, I want you to do this,' but I said, 'OK, this is what you want,'" Morris-Karp said. "And we keep asking him over and over again. Once a week, I would ask him the same question: 'Are you sure you're OK with this? You don't want anymore treatment?' 'Yup, I'm sure,'" she said Ryan replied.
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Doctors say Ryan will not likely make it to his 10th birthday on May 24.</span>
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/9-...ews-health.html</div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt">9-Year-Old Boy 'Done' With Cancer Treatments</span></span>
"I'm done with this," Ryan Kennedy told his mother. After five years of fighting a rare form of brain cancer, with seven surgeries, four rounds of chemotherapy and two bouts of radiation, the 9-year-old from Clarkston, Mich. said he had enough.
In February, Ryan's mother told him about another surgery that doctors said would buy him about three more months, but potentially could leave him on a breathing and feeding tube, according to the Oakland Press.
"When I told him about it, he said, 'No. I told you, Mom, I don't want to do anything anymore,'" Kimberly Morris-Karp told the Oakland Press. "He literally screamed and cried in hysterics, saying 'I'm done. I'm done with this.'
"The selfish part of me wanted to say, 'No, I want you to do this,' but I said, 'OK, this is what you want,'" Morris-Karp said. "And we keep asking him over and over again. Once a week, I would ask him the same question: 'Are you sure you're OK with this? You don't want anymore treatment?' 'Yup, I'm sure,'" she said Ryan replied.
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Doctors say Ryan will not likely make it to his 10th birthday on May 24.</span>
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/9-...ews-health.html</div></div>
