When Michealo Glennon was diagnosed with leukemia at 18 months old, his mother, Raquel Rolfing, had to drop everything and focus on making sure her son got the care he needed.

“As a single mom, unfortunately, I had to immediately leave my job,” Rolfing told MassLive. Her son initially went through a two-and-a-half-year treatment process immediately following his diagnosis.

“Whatever savings I had left ... over the two years, I depleted everything. Sold my car, downsized my apartment, moved in with my sister, did all these things to kind of get myself in a position to just focus on his care,” she said.

After doing well initially, Glennon, now 20, relapsed and needed a bone marrow, or stem cell, transplant, which he got in 2011. However, this put Rolfing in an even more challenging financ

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