You can follow Leo's story and updates at caring bridge:https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/leozambori Leo is 5 years old and was diagnosed on April 6th, 2016  with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.  Leo was a happy, healthy, and very smart little boy.  On April 4th, after complaining of arm pain, we took him to the pediatrician.  After x-rays and some lab work, Leo was sent home.  That evening while getting ready for bed, the doctor called, telling us to take Leo to Children's hospital emergency room and that he needed a blood transfusion immediately.  Leo's hemoglobin was so low, they don't know how he walked into the office that day.  The day before he was hitting baseballs! After hours in the emergency room and getting stuck over 9 times for blood draws and iv placements, an oncologist came to talk to us.  It was all very traumatic.  She informed us there was abnormal cells in Leo's blood, that they were not sure what we were dealing with, but it could be cancer.  As a parent, that brought us to our knees.  We were admitted to the 9th floor oncology unit at 3:30 in the morning.  At that point, life was changed.  Leo had multiple blood transfusions to get him to a safe point for a bone marrow biopsy.  Within hours of the biopsy we were sat down and told that our child had cancer.  We had to wait 3 days for the pathology of Leo's cancer to come back, once it did, treatment began. Since his diagnosis Leo has had chemo at least once a week or more either through his implanted mediport or into his spinal fluid.  He has had blood transfusions due to low counts.   It has been a long 11 months, but Leo is one of the toughest and strongest kids we have ever seen!  Leo learned how to swallow pills, which is something that doesn't typically happen with 5 year olds!  Leo has been admitted to the hospital 5 times for fevers and seizures, which included a flight by medical helicopter.  We have had many Emergency room visits for fever. Through every needle stick, test and procedure he stays strong and amazingly, happy.  Leo entered maintenance therapy in December. This will continue with daily oral chemo, courses of steroids, and monthly IV chemo and every three months intrathecal spinal chemo. Maintenance will last until June 9th, 2019. We would like to thank everyone for their continued positive thoughts and prayers for Leo.  We know that God is looking out for him and helping him through this every step of the way.  Please keep the prayers coming.  Thank you for helping to raise awareness for childhood cancer,  it is much more common that we think, and it can happen to anyone, at anytime.   Thank you all for your support of Leo and our family,  and we can't wait for the day when this time in our lives is a distant memory.  God Bless You All and Many Thanks! Leo, Nolan, Natalie and Chad From Leo: 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.