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Ride For Ryder, 1227 Belvidere Road, Port Deposit, MD (2026)

10/13/2026

Thank you John's Hopkins for graciously delivering my sons chemo. But respectfully I hope I never ever EVER, have to see you again or sign for another dose of Blinatumomab. Signed a mom, that is patiently waiting for this phase to be down, and onto the next.

10/12/2026

Just a quick update on Ryder. He's been at home for the past couple weeks. He's connected to his immunotherapy 24/7. The green backpack you see in most of these pictures holds his pump and chemo (immunotherapy) that is being directly infused in him until Oct 21st. He's been feeling great. Thank God 🙏. He's been trying to catch up on school work, working with his tutor three times a week. He has recently really been into maps, geography and the history of Port Deposit, the Conowingo Dam, and basically anywhere he can find public fishing holes on his fishing app.
He's definitely getting in all the fishing time that he can before the winter comes and before we start his next phase of treatment.
The next phase is called delayed intensification, and we will see chemotherapies that we saw in the very beginning. Different combinations of chemos that will suppress his bone marrow and his neutrophils. It is said to be the hardest phase of treatment. Coming with fevers, blood transfusions, infections, and viruses. Unfortunately it just lands smack dab in November & December. We will spend a lot of time in Ronald McDonald house during those months, to keep the cost down on gas, tolls & parking costs due to him needing to go to the clinic multiple days in a row for chemo, for weeks on end. DI ( delayed intensification) is 60 day long phase. Our hopes and prayers are to be home during the holidays and not be admitted for fevers, infections or viruses. So if we have to say no to being around those for the next few months, please don't take it personal. Our family will be on strict germ protocols to get us through until January. Please keep us in your prayers 🙏 to get through the roughest part of treatment. Unfortunately, we've been told he will loose all his hair over again as well.
Pics of Ryder the past few weeks and some fish he has caught.

09/28/2026

After another long 4 days in the hospital Ryder is finally home.
He's recovered from aspirating two weeks ago and lungs are looking great. Since we weren't able to start blinatumomab (immunotherapy) during that admission, we went back last Wednesday to get it started. We were inpatient for four days where Ryder had some headaches but nothing like it was the week prior. He is hooked up to his pump 24/7 and will be for the next 28 days.
We were released on Saturday to come home, but as the saying goes from all his practitioners "If it's going to happen, it's going to happen to Ryder". We were home for a few hours when we realized his line was wet, where there was a sticker. We originally thought it could be wet from them vigorously cleaning it with alcohol wipes when they transferred from the hospital line to the line he would come home with. Unfortunately, at 2 am I woke up, and found that wasn't the case. I listened for his pump to infuse and saw the connection was leaking. So, back to hospital we went yesterday to get things switched and fixed. We honestly can't catch a freaken break. All this boy wants to do, is fish.
So here's to hoping 🤞 the next 24 days go decently smooth. Last time he was on blinatumomab, he had lots of nausea and ended up needing quite a bit of nausea meds to keep it under control.
While we were inpatient Ryder received what they call a "Little Wish" from a program at the hospital, and he got a brand new Xbox controller. He was able to play at the hospital with his new controller in the teen gaming room. Don't mind his face in the picture, he was grouchy. But very much appreciated his new gift. Also, I'm not sure how much anyone has paid attention to pictures over the last few months, but LOOK at all that hair! It's growing back so thick. Unfortunately he will loose it all again in the next phase of treatment, but he's so excited it's at least growing now.
Thank you everyone that keeps us in their thoughts & prayers. Please don't stop praying for my boy.

09/21/2026

I hate to be back and forth with my posts, but that is just how life has been this week. We get one step ahead and then 5 steps backwards. Ryder and I were only home for 24 hrs before we ended up coming back to the hospital Saturday afternoon. He woke up with a fever, full body hurting, and a relentless headache that just wouldn't seem to go away. He's had this headache since Wednesday now. No matter how much we stay on top of pain meds, it always seems to break through before the meds wear off. We headed for the hospital and before we even got here he ended up vomiting in the car.
We've been in the ER since Sat afternoon in a completely dark room, where he slept basically for 24 hrs. He would wake up and cry to me about how much his head was hurting and end up falling right back to sleep, he couldn't stay away. Refused to eat & drink.
No matter how much I have begged for more answers his Drs are still very much convinced this is still from his cold. His lungs are looking amazing from his aspiration. They ran another set of blood cultures due to the fever and he is still on antibiotics.
Due to the headaches, vomiting and not being able to stay awake they did a MRI to see the flow through his veins, and make sure everything is flowing correctly. Which thank God, it is. The only thing the MRI is showing, is very inflamed sinuses due to this cold/sinus infection.
We were finally moved up to a regular room today and out of the ER, where Ryder seems to have a little more time awake. Still very much in pain from the relentless headache but he finally decided to eat for the first time since Friday, a slice of pizza and his favorite salt n vinegar chips that aunt Mel and Nana brought to the hospital.
We could use some prayers that these headaches will go away and stay away. Give my baby a freaken break! He doesn't deserve any of this, but to feel like "absolute dog s**t" in his words, it's the hardest thing as a mother to watch my baby go through all of this. Not only chemo, immunotherapy, chemo-sickness, but now him aspirating this week and feeling like he has the flu, but it being a cold, and it just won't let up.
Pray for our family as everyone else at home is also needing their momma. Wanting their brother home, and just plain out we are all missing one another. 🧡🎗️

09/19/2026

I want to thank every single one of you that have prayed over my boy this week. It's been a long week. His temperature has remained normal and his coughing is getting better and better, getting stuff out of his lungs and not needing any oxygen. Which is a miracle for everything he's been through.
His headaches are still being stubborn but I'm hoping we are past the worst of the headaches. From Wed night- Fri morning, he had a headache so bad it was causing him to vomit from the pain being so severe. He does get headaches from most of his spinals, but nothing like this type of headache. He usually gets some relief from pain meds, but This one was different. It was relentless. There were 3 different pain meds they tried and nothing helped. He and I didn't sleep a bit Thursday night because he was crying in pain. Friday morning he woke up and said his head was better but not 100%, so with that his Drs felt like he would be better at home and more comfortable.
We came home today, still battling a headache but hopefully he'll sleep tonight and start getting better. Ryder still needs to work on clearing out his lungs, but that will take time.
Next week we will need to get back on schedule for his immunotherapy since we put that on hold to take care of the aspiration issue. So we will head back for another admission next week. 🤞🙏 Praying we have an event free week next week and everything goes smoothly.

09/17/2026

Update:
There isn't much of an update on changes. I know we have a lot of people praying for him, not only family, friends & Perryville/Port community but also Oxford/ Nottingham community as well. There are a lot of people praying for him right now and I feel the support. It's a lot of doctors, nurses and residents that come in throughout the day and I really am only able to call Jason and keep him updated.
We are still on a regular unit but nothing has changed. He is still creeping fevers, struggling to breathe at some points in the day, and still coughing up a whole lot of mucous and some remnants of blood. Ryder had absolutely zero appetite today and I had to encourage him to drink all day. He was able to sit up for a bit and play on his tablet and Xbox but not very much.
He's 10, so he doesn't understand that coughing is what we want. We want him to cough up all that fluid in his lungs. He's afraid to cough hard due to it making him spit up and sometimes go into a coughing fit and cause him to vomit. I know it's gotta be aggravating but it's exactly what we want him to do. Get that s**t out of his lungs!
Last night around 10pm he spiked a fever so they got blood cultures again. So right now, we've got two sets of blood cultures we are waiting on to see if any bacteria grows. They are also debating on getting another chest X-ray, he's been on two different antibiotics and at this point should be recovering if it's a bacteria from the aspiration.
Please keep praying for my boy. Pray he recovers fully from this soon. Pray he starts feeling better, and pray we get to come home this weekend. All my boy wants to do is go fishing. 🧡🎗️

09/15/2026

Keep the prayers coming 🙏We feel them!

Good news is Ryder has been moved out of the ICU and onto the regular pediatric unit. Ryders fevers have gone down but unfortunately he's still needing oxygen support. He's still coughing up a lot out of his chest, which is amazing to help clear his lungs. He's very congested in his sinuses and chest. Sometimes I can hear the gunk in his chest when he's breathing and he needs a reminder to cough it up. He's also been having some dizziness when he stands up.
Blood cultures aren't back yet to know if there is an infection somewhere, so until then he's still on the antibiotics.
Please keep Ryder is your prayers as he continues to push through this unexpected nightmare.

09/15/2026

It's been a long, exhausting, emotional day today. I am gonna cut right to the chase and tell you guys, Ryder is in the ICU right now.
I mentioned Ryder has had a cold this week but it seemed mild and since last Wednesday, Jason and I have been strictly watching his temperature nearly every hour on the hour and keeping an eye for any type of cough. He's done great, until today.

We were scheduled to come in for a spinal and to start his blinatumomab (immunotherapy). I had a feeling with his cold that his labs weren't going to be good enough and we were going to be sent home, but to my surprise, labs looked great. I told them I was a little uneasy about even doing to spinal because he was sick, but they reassured me that lungs sounded fine and labs were good so we were going to continue. I even went over my concerns with anesthesia and she agreed that lungs sounded great and she didn't see any reason to delay his spinal.
Ryder was taken back around 1:48 and by 2:50 I knew something was wrong. Spinals are about 15 minutes not an hour. They came out to speak to me and tell me that during the procedure he vomited and that they had to suction him and get him calmly breathing again and comfortable.
Not long after I was called back, Ryder woke up nearly screaming with a very horse voice, barky cough, and couldn't keep his oxygen stable. He then started full body shivering. Shivering like I've never seen before, and a fever that went to 102 very quick! They got a chest X-ray, and at the moment he is being treated for aspiration pneumonia.
He was fine before he went into his procedure, and now he's got an oxygen mask on at 15L and he is terrified to take it off because he says he can't breathe. He screamed out to the nurse In post op, that he didn't want to die, that he couldn't breathe. One of the most terrifying moments I've ever had to witness. I've told you guys from the start, I'm not going to sugar coat anything, and give you guys all the raw and ugly of this horrible nightmare. He has coughed up some blood a few times and it sounds like his chest of just full of gunk. Who knows how much he aspirated. Theyve got him started on two different antibiotics at the moment, until blood cultures come back with something bacterial or not.
Please everyone pray for my baby boy. He has enough going on and my momma heart can't tolerate any more of this. Please pray for our family as I'm the only one here with Ryder. The big kids and Dad are at home worried sick about him, while having to get up in the morning for school and Jason has to go to work, and be there for the big kids because the bills don't stop adding up whether your kid is in the ICU or not.

09/14/2026

🧡Hey friends, it's been a while since I posted. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month. As you know Ryder is still facing hospital stays. Some of them are rougher than others. Today has been rough for him. Let's show him some love and support. I am hoping to get at least 100 selfies. Here's how to do it.

1️⃣Click the link below

2️⃣Pick a frame (Ryders is orange)

3️⃣Take a selfie

4️⃣Share it and tag Ride For Ryder

https://snapshot.solvisi.com/childhood-cancer

‼️This is super easy, and takes only a second.‼️

09/12/2026

Ryder is still dealing with this darn cold that just keeps lingering, but we were able to step out this morning to see our friend 🖤❤️ Paul Matthews. It may have been a short n sweet visit but Ryder left feeling like a badass fisherman with a whole lot of new gear. It got me in my emotions today, but we can't thank Mr. Paul enough for everything he does for these kids.

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