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Dylan Quick Foundation Dylan Quick,19, passed away January 23, 2019, after a 4+ year battle with Ewing's Sarcoma--his fight lives on! "WE GOT THIS!"

Today - WE - Fight

Dylan, an otherwise healthly 14-year old high school kid, was experiencing shortness of breath and chest pains. After a visit to his local doctor, he was immediately sent to a Children's hospital for emergency surgery to remove a large mass from his lung...the mass was the source of cancerous spots on his lungs. Dylan was ultimately diagnosed with 'Ewing's Sarcoma' (extremely rare form of childhood cancer accounting for only 1% of childhood cancers) and will begin a lengthy chemotherapy regime shortly. Dylan's parents are both hard-working people in the medical field and public service and will continue to miss time at work while Dylan goes through his treatments. Your gracious donations will greatly assist with non-covered medical costs and co-pays, transportation to and from bi-weekly chemotherapy treatment appointments, lodging, and incidentals. CREED TO LIVE BY
Today - One day at a time; one battle at a time

WE - Dylan, family, friends, Drs, RNs, staff (No one can do this alone)

Fight - We don't give up; we don't give in!

10/15/2026

Back to the start...

I realized I never explained how Dylan ended up at the children's hospital to start with. Dylan was spending the night with Johnny and Casey. Johnny called me the next morning because Dylan was complaining his chest hurt. I was working so I had Gary go pick him up and bring him to my work. One of the nurses listened to his lungs and didnt really hear anything concerning. But he was hurting so I figured we better get it checked. It was labor day so the pediatrician office was closed. We had to take him to the ER. They did a chest x-ray and said they did not see anything concerning but he did have some fluid in the plural space around the lung. They gave him an antibiotic and sent us on our way. Wish I knew then what I know now. We would have never left without a CT scan. My boss, who was a nurse was concerned about the fluid especially for a 14 year old. A week went by and Dylan was almost done with the antibiotic. He was still having chest pains. So I called the pediatrician and made an appointment. We saw Dr. Mangun (love her) she was our regular doctor. She wanted to do her own x-ray. She had me come in the hall and she had the x-ray hanging up. She pointed out this big dark shadow. She said we need to get a CT scan today. We went straight to the hospital and had it done. It was late in the day so Dr. Mangun called me the next morning. She started telling me there was a mass in his chest and we had to go to the children's hospital today, they are expecting us. I just faded away as she was talking and my worst fears were coming true. I just started crying, I could not even hold it together to talk to her. I was so scared. I left work and called Gary right away. I then had to go pick Dylan up from school. We went home and got a bag together for the night and off to Greenville we went. Dylan was a direct admit to the children's hospital. They started blood work and a CT scan. My entire family and alot of Dylan friends and our friends flooded the hospital that same night we arrived. We were so thankful for all the support. The second day in the hospital they came in to explain what was going on. That is when we met Dr. Fuh. (love him) He had an entire team with him. I was sitting on the side of Dylans bed and Gary on the other. Some of our family was in the room. They rolled a monitor in the room and he started talking. He was showing us the CT of Dylans chest. He started pointing out all the nodules that shouldn't be there. My heart was coming out of my chest, I felt sick. I said I think I need an Ativan. It was like having an out of body experience listening to what he was saying. Thinking there is no way this is my child's body. I was so terrified but I immediately got this overwhelming feeling to be strong and don't scare Dylan, protect Gary and Brandon's heart. I don't want any of them be scared and hurt. Dr. Fuh and Dr. Walsh came up with a plan for surgery the next day. That started this 5 year journey.

We want to say a Hugh THANK YOU to the Vealey Group for sponsoring the Dylan strong pediatric cancer awareness softball ...
10/09/2026

We want to say a Hugh THANK YOU to the Vealey Group for sponsoring the Dylan strong pediatric cancer awareness softball tournament this year.

I know Dylans story was for childhood cancer awareness month but I had to take a break. I'm ready to continue his story....
10/09/2026

I know Dylans story was for childhood cancer awareness month but I had to take a break.

I'm ready to continue his story.

Dylan was living like a normal teenager. Life was good and he was enjoying every minute of it. We were so happy cancer was behind us and we could move forward. The fear of it coming back never really left my thoughts and for good reason.

Dylan woke up one morning with his toe hurting. He didn't injure it in anyway so I thought that was strange. I told him we better get that checked out. So I called and made an appointment. An x-ray revealed that his bone in his toe had been completely shattered and broken. Dr. Fuh wanted Dylan to have a biopsy of the bone in his toe. Duke hospital were the experts in that so Dr. Fuh sent us there. The biopsy revealed cancer cells and they were the same type of cancer cells he had before. So next step was a bone scan at Vidant. That was so terrifying to watch. That machine came so close to his body. That test showed no other cancer in his bones outside of the toe. So I was thinking, ok this is small, this is manageable.
Dr. Fuh said we needed to do a PET scan to see if it was anywhere else in the soft tissue. That test revealed a mass in his chest. So the cancer had returned in his chest and metastasize to his toe.
I felt the life just drain out of me in that moment. I was terrified for Dylan, I was terrified for our family. I was scared of the unknown but I never let Dylan see that. I just didn't want him to be scared.
Dylan had to undergo surgery again. Dr. Walsh removed his toe and surrounding tissue. She then moved to his chest. Because the mass was in a weird spot she had to go in from his back. She had to remove a rib in order to reach the tumor and remove it. The surgery was a success, she was able to remove the whole tumor.
Dr. Walsh knew Dylan loved Pokémon so she made Dylans bandage in the shape of Pikachu. He did come out with a chest tube but it was able to be removed within a few days. Dylan ended up on a knee scooter because he was non weight bearing for weeks. He recovered quickly and was moving in the right direction.

To be continued.....

Dylan was cancer free! We were so thankful and we felt so blessed. Our sweet Dylan had won the battle. I cant put in to ...
10/02/2026

Dylan was cancer free! We were so thankful and we felt so blessed. Our sweet Dylan had won the battle. I cant put in to words the feeling we had as parents.
Dylan was ready to do his Make a Wish trip to Disney. We had a police es**rt to Morgans where we had his Make a Wish dinner. We had so much support, surrounded by family and friends. Off we went to Florida the next morning. We spent a week there and had such a great time. Made some wonderful memories. When we returned Dylan was scheduled to have his port removed. That was the finale piece to saying goodbye to cancer. ♥️

More of Dylans story...Dylan continued to live his life as he was finishing up chemo. He learned how to drive and got hi...
09/30/2026

More of Dylans story...

Dylan continued to live his life as he was finishing up chemo. He learned how to drive and got his license. He went on a college tour around North Carolina. We went on a trip to New York to visit family. Exactly one year after he started chemo he was clear of any disease🙏
And about 10 months after that big surgery he ran a 5k with his dad. Dylan missed his entire first year of high school in person. So he was ready to go when school started in August.
His hair was growing back so he learned to shave and got a haircut. Life was somewhat back to normal and we were so thankful!❤️

Continuation of Dylans story...The idea of chemo was to shrink the tumors small enough so they could be removed. It wor...
09/27/2026

Continuation of Dylans story...

The idea of chemo was to shrink the tumors small enough so they could be removed. It worked, most of them shrunk over 50% and some small ones were gone. It was time for surgery. This was a hugh surgery. The waiting room was packed with friends and family. We were terrified.
On January 23,2015 they open Dylan up across the chest instead of down the chest. They were able to remove the mass in his chest and all the tumors in his lungs. They actually removed the bottom left lobe of his lung. He came out of surgery with 3 chest tubes and an incision from armpit to armpit. I learned more about chest tubes than I ever wanted to learn. Recovery went well but right back to chemo after he healed. They wanted to make sure everything was gone. Dyaln had his last chemo in June, 2015. We celebrated and they let Dylan turn the hospital lights purple.
His bonds with staff were so strong. We loved them all so much. They were all so kind to us. Dylan met Joshua Lashley at the hospital they were going through cancer at the same time. They became great friends 🧡 they were together through most of their treatments. We love Josh and still keep in touch.

For the next four months we were back and fourth to the hospital every two weeks. During that time Dylan got to go to th...
09/26/2026

For the next four months we were back and fourth to the hospital every two weeks. During that time Dylan got to go to the ECU game as a special guest. That was cool. He also received a letter from Roy Williams. That was very cool. Along the way Dylan started to build bonds with the staff at the hospital. So many great people ❤️ The further he got into the chemo the sicker he looked. The more he started to look like a different person. When he would get what was know as the red devil chemo, it was rough. It would make his blood pressure drop really low. It would make him sick sometimes 😢
Dylan spent so much time there he would become bored. One time he gave his IV pole a face and name because it went everywhere with him. After chemo and we were home Dylan would have to get shots to help bring his blood counts up to boost his immunity. Two of my favorite people would take turns doing it for us, Claudia Infinito Rose and Lori Kimball ♥️
Dylan loved those ladies.
Believe me these recaps are hard for me but I feel are necessary for people to understand. Childhood cancer sucks.

So we were 3 treatments in and we came up with the idea for the bracelets. As a family we thought that would be a cool m...
09/25/2026

So we were 3 treatments in and we came up with the idea for the bracelets. As a family we thought that would be a cool motivational piece.

Also at the third treatment Dylans hair started to fall out. So he made the decision to shave it. Once he got home from that hospital stay his dad shaved his head. Dylan cousin and best friend ask Dylan to shave thier heads.

Just a reminder these post are for childhood cancer awareness month. I just want people to understand what a family goes...
09/22/2026

Just a reminder these post are for childhood cancer awareness month. I just want people to understand what a family goes through. Its really vulnerable and ugly sometimes.

While we were in the hospital for Dylans first round of chemo, his road map (treatment)was set. He would go in for a week then home for two weeks and back for 3 days. That was the schedule until Christmas.

So the first time they brought Dylans chemo in the room. I was a little freaked out. The nurse was gowned up with special gloves and was holding a yellow bag thay said caution, observe safety precautions! It had my childs name on it.

A new fear was unlocked. You know this stuff is going to make your baby feel horrible but what do you do 😢

Thankfully Dylan did great. We made ourselves at home and did our time. With such positive attitudes, we were in it for the long haul.

Dylan Quick Foundation

After they removed some of the tumor we were told Dylan had 14 tumors in his lungs and a very large mass in his chest. T...
09/16/2026

After they removed some of the tumor we were told Dylan had 14 tumors in his lungs and a very large mass in his chest. They determined it was Ewings Sarcoma that Dylan had, it was time for treatment.
Back to the hospital for a 3 day chemo treatment and a bone scan. This was a bone cancer so they wanted to see if any bones were effected. Remarkably not one. This started a long treatment process for the next five months.

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