“I wanted to walk away from my faith with God, from the church, from everything. Nothing made sense to me at that point.”

Doctors couldn’t tell Megan McCullum why her 7-year-old son Vaughn kept having headaches. Then one day when she dropped him off at school, he collapsed on his way in. After giving Vaughn a CAT scan and MRI, the doctors had news for Megan, her husband James, and their other children Elizabeth and Terrance. Though the family was diagnosed at that time with a medulloblastoma, Clinical director of Texas Children’s Hospitals long-term survivors program Dr ZoAnn Dreyer, explains the severity of his diagnosis.

According to Dr. Dreyer, “medulloblastomas are quite aggressive brain tumors, it's hard to treat and cure, it's a reasonable possibility that he may not have survived.

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