Blood transfusions take place in the meantime, which wear the little boy down.
His white blood count goes down to zero. Not to mention the pocket book. For that reason, an account has been set up at Five Points Bank to alleviate some of the family's medical costs. Hunter has a condition called Astrocydoma, which is a cellular tumor that grows back rapidly. As a result, the tumor grew back four months after a surgery last year had removed 90 percent of it, Dvorak said.