Evan Hutchison

Evan The Warrior is an 8 year old battling Pre B Cell High Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. (ALL)

Hi. My name is Evan and I am 8 years old. I was diagnosed with ALL, Pre B- Cell High Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in May, 2007. I am a patient at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, CA. I live in the Santa Clarita Valley with my Mom, my brother and my pug, Bubba. I am a third grader at Highlands Elementary School in Saugus, Ca and I am a Boy Scout.

Before the diagnosis I was just a normal, fun loving, happy go lucky kid, getting good grades, running around everywhere and generally bugging my older brother as most of us younger kids do. I have a Mighty Mite Black Belt in Hapkido, but I never use it on friends and family. I am a bowler at the Santa Clarita Valley Lanes on the Pee Wee League. I love the trampoline, sports, the beach and camping and amusement parks. I also love Legos, cooking and jokes. I am always looking for friends.

I love cars…the fancy ones and video games. I like to ask questions and talk with people. I love animals, especially dogs and cats and fish and anything albino. My favorite food is Mac and Cheese and I love to cook Rachael Ray’s meals. I enjoy watching the Discovery Channel. I love to learn and to design things and I love to laugh!

Let me tell you a little bit about what happened right in the middle of Mervyns Department Store on a Friday after school! There I was shopping for the coolest school shoes ever with my Mom and my brother and I got the worst pain in my hips and legs. Out of the blue it came and it was “call the ambulance” bad. I laid down on the curb of the parking lot it hurt so bad. I threw up it hurt so bad. Then I got a fever and everyone thought I had strep throat or the flu. But 4 days went by and I did not get any better. Then they saw my BLOOD. I had a hundred million trillion or something like that of “blasts” and very few red blood cells. The “Pac Man” blasts were taking over my body- and fast. The next thing I knew I was bundled up and in an ambulance and on the way to the hospital with LEUKEMIA!

Lucky for me Children’s Hospital in LA knows just what to do about this! I have to have chemotherapy for three years. I am already in remission, but guess what? The leukemia cells HIDE! Remission is different for kids with leukemia. The bad guys go and hide where no one can see them and we have to spend three years finding them and killing them. Right now the doctors are looking in my brain and spine for them. I am in Phase Three of Five. So far I have spent the whole entire summer and the new school year fighting these bad guys. Before, the doctors and nurses were looking in my blood and my spine-now they are looking everywhere!. My Mom can tell you the exact words for what they are doing to get me better. It is working but sometimes I don’t feel so hot. The medicine is weird. It is sickening actually, but don’t tell anyone.

Everyone calls me Evan the Warrior. You can too. I know what it is like to persevere and to do your best and I think this is what will get me better…that and laughing and praying…a lot!

I am hoping you will like my Carepage and the Webblog and I would love to hear from you! We are going to be doing a lot of things to help cancer kids all over the world, and me, so stay tuned. Send jokes anytime!

Love,

Evan the Warrior

I can be reached at PO Box 800883 Santa Clarita, CA 91380.
You can also email me at
evan thewarrior@sbcglobal.net or visit me on www.carepages.com (sitename evanthewarrior).

Donations are kindly accepted at any Wamu Branch in California. My Account is The Evan Hutchison Fund, 395-173464-5

If you would like to email the Warior Women or me or my Mom, please use evanthewarrior@sbcglobal.net.

I would love to hear from you!!
Smiles,
Evan the Warrior