When her son was 2 years old, Sarah received news no parent ever wants to hear: Her child had cancer. “He had a mass over his heart, and it was pushing into his trachea,” she said. Axton was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Immediately after his diagnosis, he stayed in the pediatric intensive care unit for a week and started chemotherapy within a couple of days. He underwent aggressive treatment for 11 months, receiving chemotherapy between one and five times each week, then maintenance chemotherapy for almost four years. Over the course of his treatment, he received eight blood transfusions, which helped tremendously in getting him through to his last infusion. “He would not have that much energy and be very pale,” Sarah said. “When I was with him and he got those blood transfusions, it was a miracle. It’s a miracle because the doctors and the nurses can't create this. It has to come from people. Just knowing that people were donating to help my child be success...