A Grandpa Needs Your Help!!

Hey Dad,

Got this letter from the wife of fellow familyman, Claude Greulich. Read it an imagine that it was your 4 year old son.

Kane Mason started out as a very normal little boy and lived his first 2 years learning to walk, talk, play ball, laugh, tease, and play with his sister and cousins for hours. He loved to follow his grandpa around, and he loved spending time at Lake Isabella. Just before his third birthday, he began having seizures and was diagnosed with epilepsy shortly after the seizures began.

His family slowly started noticing other changes. He stopped using his left side. He stopped playing. He stopped laughing. Pretty soon he could no longer walk or talk. He spent most of the month of July in Nationwide Children’s Hospital with his family staying at a Ronald McDonald House while the doctors tried to figure out what was wrong with him.

Kane had lost 20 pounds and was skin and bone at this point. This put him at about the weight of a 1-year-old instead of an almost 4-year-old. The doctors ran every test they knew to run. Genetic testing was also done. There has been more testing done in September and December of 2013 and more done in 2014. Even with all the testing, Kane still has no diagnosis as to why he has lost all ability to do anything.

He continues with no improvement other than gaining back some of the lost weight due to having a feeding tube put in. He is now seeing doctors at Cincinnati Children’s as well as in Columbus. Kane’s family has been exploring many avenues and doing much researching.

One that seems to hold some hope is stem cell treatment. This is done using full term baby’s umbilical cords and adult stem cells and has shown significant progress in treating children with epilepsy, spina-bifida, and several types of cancer.

There are treatment programs in China, Mexico, Europe, and some in the infantile stages in the US. Kane’s parents have decided that they would like to take him to Mexico to the Nova Cells Institute (novacellsinstitute.com) in Tijuana, Mexico. Cost for one treatment will run approximately $20,000, which includes the cost for the family to travel there and stay.

A tentative treatment date has been set for the middle of August. We are planning many fundraising activities over the next few months, and we have opened a benefit account, Hope for Kane, at The Community Bank of Zanesville (740-454-1600). We also have a Facebook page called Hope for Kane. If anyone would like to talk to us more about Kane, please call Dawn Greulich (grandma) at 740-454-5138 or 740-586-9643 or Renee Linscott (great aunt) at 740-607-0614. Also, can email us at hopeforkane@gmail.com.

You can also help at Youcaring.com and search for Hope for Kane.

*Dad, if you can do something for Kane and his family, do it.

Todd