Tara Simkins will talk about her son Brennan who survived 4 Bone Marrow Transplant in 18 months, after being diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Brennan is now 21 years old, in college, and living his best life possible.

On today's podcast Tara Simkins will talk about her son Brennan who was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in early 2009. What happened from there turned out to be one of the most memorable stories in Pediatric Cancer as Brennan survived 4 Bone Marrow Transplants in 18 months.   After his first bone marrow transplant Brennan relapsed, and his family was told that they should consider putting Brennan in hospice care as his doctors were not expecting him to survive. Later on in his treatment , his doctors gave him a less than 1 percent chance of survival.But survive he did.Brennan is now 21 years old and is a student at the College of Charleston's Reach program in which he has a keen interest in politics. His health is good enough so that he is able to lead a successful and meaningful life as he looks towards a promising future.