Landon is a eight year old from Tiffin, Ohio who was diagnosed with T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in June 2020. Landon lives with his parents Michael and Ashley Root and his grandparents and he has two siblings a sister Maci Shiley (10) and Grayson Root (5). Prior to diagnosis he had surgery in March for a second set of tubes put into his ears and also his tonsils were bigger than normal so they took them out also. Well he recovered from surgery from that and we’ll come June landon had been experiencing some leg pain his mom thought it was just growing pains. Well one morning he woke up throwing up and complaining of stomach pain and he had this weird looking what his mom describe as almost like chicken pox but not raised up. His mom took him to his family doctor who ran some test his strep came back negative so the family doctor had his mom take him to the outpatient lab at Tiffin hospital for bloodwork. Well a few hours later his mom got the phone call that Landons white blood count was ten times high compared to normal that I needed to get him to the nearest emergency room. When landon and his mom got to the hospital his mom asked the doctor what it could be and the doctor said really only thing it could be was leukemia. His mom was alone due to the pandemic and Landon’s father was at work. Landon had to be taken by ambulance up to Toledo Children’s Hospital and that very same night/ early the next morning landon was undergoing a bone marrow biopsy to determine the type of cancer he had and he also had a port inserted into his chest which is how he receives his chemoInfusion. Landon is currently in maintenance phase of treatment cycle 5 his end of treatment date is November 2023. The first 9 months of frontline treatment was kinda rough on landon specially the first two months when he was on steroids for a whole month and he gained so much weight and he also got some neuropathy pain but physical therapy has really helped that a lot. He has had a couple hospital stays due to a fever. Landon missed almost all of his kindergarten class in person due to the treatment but he is happy to be back in school this year and is doing really well in school going into second grade. He goes to physical therapy every two weeks. He takes at home chemotherapy pills and goes to Toledo for chemotherapy once a month and lumbar punctures every three months. Even through all of this he still thrives and smiles. Lately we have been struggling with behavioral issues.Thank you for supporting me and the more than 300,000 kids worldwide who will be diagnosed with cancer this year. By sharing the gifts of your time, talent and money with the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, you're supporting research to give all kids with cancer a better chance for a cure.