How is Shane Bernier doing? ?

Question

Remember the little boy who wanted to set a record for the most birthday cards?

I was just wondering how he's doing, if he made the record... if he's even alive still?

Thanks!

Answer 1

This is Shane's homepage:

http://www.shaneswish.com/

Unlike may other mails that circulate about children that are ill this one is real. Not to be confused with those about Shane in Crystal Lake, Illinois, and Shane in Schuylerville, New York, that are both fake.

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At the age of four, Shane was diagnosed as having Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). While he did go into early remission, he suffered a relapse in July 2006 and underwent a course of chemotherapy at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) until the end of June 2007, at which time he was placed on a maintenance program with weaker chemo into

2008.

If the chemo doesn't work, he might have to have a bone marrow transplant. His six-year-old brother, Jacob, is a donor match.

According to Shane's mother, Nathalie Bernier, after the latest round of chemotherapy is completed Shane will have an 80% chance of being fine for the rest of his life

As of his 8th birthday (in May 2007), Shane had received nearly two million cards, of which he and his family had by then opened 650,000. By December 2007, he had received more than 13 million.

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Source:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/be...