COTA for Logan's Battle

Our Story

In August of 2024 we traveled with Logan and his eight-year-old twin sister Riley to the south of France, riding bicycles along canals and vineyards. Three weeks later, after taking Logan to the ER in the middle of the night for severe stomach pain, our world was turned upside down. Within hours, he was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic liver cancer. It still tears at the pits of my stomach to write those words and relive that day.

The next day, Logan started aggressive and potent chemotherapy to battle back the tumors that had engulfed his liver, and he continued receiving intense chemotherapy for the following six months. Those months were mired with serious challenges: infections, a ruptured tumor requiring emergency intervention, havoc wreaked on Logan’s blood counts and the fear of spontaneous bleeding, and prolonged stays in the hospital. But those months were also interspersed with many joyful moments: laughing at home with Riley, walks in the sunshine around our neighborhood, and two trips to Lincoln Financial Field to cheer on the Eagles on their way to winning the Superbowl.

For many, the type of aggressive chemotherapy that Logan had to endure for six months would be the start and end of a hellacious brush with cancer. For Logan, it was merely the cost of admission, the ante at the table that must be paid up front on the long and arduous path toward a cure. Due to the extent of the spread of cancer in Logan’s liver, it was a certainty that he would need to undergo liver transplant surgery once the initial chemotherapy regressed the tumors. But in the very rare and challenging scenario Logan was faced with, we learned that even this too would prove more difficult than is even possible to imagine. The tumors had extended out from Logan’s liver into the veins that connected with the surrounding abdominal organs. As a result, instead of a simple liver transplant , Logan needed a multi-visceral organ transplant to remove the cancer. This is the most difficult type of transplant to undergo and manage, and is a procedure that would not have been possible to perform before the 21st century.

On March 6, 2025, our prayers were answered when Logan received a donor offer. He underwent a 10-hour surgery that transplanted a new liver, pancreas, and small intestines. The past month of recovery from that procedure have unleashed both the darkest of lows and rays of true hope.

One could view Logan’s diagnosis and treatment course as the worst possible odds that could be stacked against someone. Its hard to imagine a more invasive or challenging medical treatment course, if one even exists. Or it could be viewed another way. Despite the indescribable hardship and anguish, we are indescribably grateful that this journey provides hope. Hope that he will persevere and beat this. And while much of his midsection has now been disassembled and reconstructed, his heart is pure, his mind is sharp, and his spirit is as unbreakable as ever.

Thank you for following along and supporting Logan.