Matthew, age 8, lives in Traverse City, Michigan, USA. He has Meyer Gorlin Syndrome and is one of the smallest kids in the world. He is one of a few people to ever be diagnosed with MGS; and at age seven, weighed only 19 pounds and was just 36 inches tall.

On the 31st October this year his parents decided to take him to his local ER as he was suffering with dizziness, pains in the head for several days. This is when their and Matthew's nightmare became a reality, a CT scan of the head showed something was wrong and he was taken via 4.5 hour ambulance ride to the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children?s Hospital for a MRI scan. The scan showed that he had a brain tumor which was caused by an aggressive form of cancer called Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). After 13 hours of Surgery the majority of the tumor has been removed however Matthew has to go through costly radiation and chemotherapy. Matthew?s dad had to quit his job so he could be with his son during his treatments, 4.5 hours away from their home.