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After learning that a hospital check-in has been moved back four hours, Cyndie frantically tries to arrange a way to get Derek to UC Davis Medical Center on July 27, 2005 while avoiding one of his meltdowns. 'How can anyone maintain a nine to five…

Derek Madsen, center, jumps between beds at a Lake Tahoe hotel on July 16, 2005 with his brother Micah Moffe, left, and best friend RJ Dolan. The trip provided by NBA star Chris Webber marks Derek's first time staying in a hotel. Their mom Cyndie…

Cyndie carries her exhausted son, Derek, to a limousine on July 16, 2005, after he spent the day with NBA star Chris Webber at the American Century Championship at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Stateline, Nev. Webber's publicist Erika Bjork, left,…

As his mother waits for him to calm down, Derek Madsen, 10, collapses in tears on a sidewalk outside UC Davis Medical Center after his bone marrow extraction. Derek refused to leave the hospital with Cyndie, so a family friend, 'grandpa' Patrick…

Cyndie French carries her son, Derek Madsen, 10, out of UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento June 21, 2005 after Derek refused to get in a wheelchair to leave the hospital following his bone marrow extraction. Family friend Pat Degnan, right, pushes…

Cyndie French with family friend Pat Degnan, tries to calm her son, Derek Madsen, 10, after his bone marrow extraction at UC Davis Medical Center. Because of Derek's fears, Cyndie had spared her son advance details of the procedure and its…

Derek Madsen, 10, gets a soothing massage from his mother, Cyndie French, at her Sacramento nail and tanning salon on June 2, 2005. The 10-year-old is battling a rare childhood cancer that has invaded his bones and organs. 'I'm going to do whatever…

Cyndie French, embraces her son, Derek Madsen, 10, on July 25, 2005, after learning Derek needs surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in his abdomen. Photo taken on Monday July 25, 2005.

Racing barefooted after kicking off her flip-flops, Cyndie French pushes her son Derek Madsen, 10, up and down hallways in the UC Davis Medical Center, successfully distracting him during the dreaded wait before his bone marrow extraction. Doctors…

A Kashmiri Muslim villager drinks tea inside a barber shop in Aishmuqaam, some 80 kms south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir.