09/02/2026
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FIGHT CANCER SIDEPOT - what is it?
We are donating all proceeds to a kid in need. That kids name is Ollie Hargues.
His story is below, taken from his incredible Mom! ā¬ļø
Written by Katie Hargues -
For Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, I want to tell Ollieās diagnosis story. This is something I have carried with me since the day everything changed.
I got a call from the school nurse saying that Ollieās back was hurting and that he told them he had jumped off his bunk bed. I picked him up and we went to urgent care on November 17th. They did an X-ray and said he was constipated and that was why his back hurt.
By the next day, he was having trouble walking and couldnāt sleep at night because he was in so much pain. We went to the Elk City ER on November 19th, 2025. They did an MRI to rule out a blockage and sent us home to do a full cleanout.
It was miserable for Ollie. Bowel cleanouts are no joke for a 5-year-old.
After a couple of days, he wasnāt in as much pain and was able to walk around. We thought he was just constipated and that the problem would be fixed with a diet change.
By December 12th, he was screaming in pain, so I took him back to our local ER. I voiced my concerns that this wasnāt normal behavior for Oliver and that he was in so much pain. That ER doctor looked at Ollie and said, āHe will eventually stop fighting his body and use the bathroom,ā and sent us home without even taking Ollieās temperature.
Later that night, we loaded up and took Ollie straight to OU Childrenās, two hours away.
After 10 hours in the ER, they did more X-rays and said he was constipated. They wanted to admit him and run an NG tube to his stomach to flush everything out. Not one person could explain his back pain. They just kept blaming it on constipation.
Ollie was admitted to OU Childrenās for the first time on December 13th for two nights. Yes, they did blood work and X-rays, but he was admitted for constipation. We were told that once he was cleaned out, his back pain would be gone.
They were wrong.
They took blood, and his blood work showed up in my online portal as abnormal. I was just a tired mom, and I thought, āIf something is wrong with his lab results, the seven doctors on his team will look into it and let me know.ā
I was wrong.
I wish I had spoken up on December 13th. I wish I had pushed them to look into his low platelets and low red blood cell count. I wish I had known what those numbers meant.
We went home late December 15th. Ollie still couldnāt walk. His dad had to carry him to the car. The doctor told us his back would feel better soon.
We trusted them.
We tried to do Christmas festivities, but Ollie could hardly stand. We just kept getting told to do the at-home cleanout and that it would get better. Some days he could walk, and other days he was up all night screaming in pain.
Ollieās wonderful local primary care physician never gave up. He sent us back to OU Childrenās to meet with a neurosurgeon and get an MRI to figure out why he was having so much back pain.
On January 16th, 2026, Ollie had an MRI done of his back. He was under sedation, and we waited four hours for him to get the scan. It took us 2 week to get back in with the neurosurgeon to get those MRI results.
We didnāt have 2 weeks to wait.
On January 29th, 2026, Ollie was in uncontrollable pain. Iām talking screaming at the top of his lungs. His back hurt all the way down to his toes, and he wasnāt able to stand at all.
We found a babysitter for Oz and headed back to OU Childrenās.
When we got to the ER, they did more X-rays, but those didnāt matter because Ollieās blood work came back so concerning that he was admitted.
My baby was dying slowly, being taken over by cancer right in front of me, and we were just treating it as constipation.
I will never forgive myself for not fighting harder for him when it all started in November of 2025.
His platelets were low. His red blood cell count was low. His hemoglobin was low. His white blood cell count was low.
Ollie was diagnosed with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) after a bone marrow biopsy confirmed the diagnosis.
That was a Friday afternoon when my world stopped. January 30th 2026
So much of that time is a blur.
February 1st was the Monday when the ball really started rolling. Ollie received his first blood transfusion and platelet transfusion. The next day, he had his first lumbar puncture to add chemo to his spinal fluid and his first round of chemo through his PICC line in his arm.
On February 5th, he had his first round of PEG chemo. Only cancer moms understand how scary this chemo is. Children can have severe reactions and even go into anaphylactic shock.
Ollie did great.
He finally got to go home on February 5th at 6 p.m.
That was just the beginning of our real journey. That was the day our new life started.
The side effects from the chemo took Ollieās ability to walk completely away. I didnāt get to see my boy up and walking again until the end of March.
He had to use a walker.
It was so sad watching my wild, trampoline-loving, skateboarding boy lose so much of the independence he had always had.
But Ollie is fighting this cancer, and he is the strongest and bravest boy I know.
If you made it this far, thank you for reading.
Someday, I hope to look back on all of this and remember every trial Ollie faced and overcame. I hope I can look back and see just how far he has come.
He is so amazing, and he is teaching me something new every single day.
For Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, I want people to know that childhood cancer doesnāt always look like what you think it does. Sometimes it looks like back pain. Sometimes it looks like constipation. Sometimes it looks like a child who just doesnāt seem like themselves.
And sometimes, a mom knows something isnāt right.
I wish I had known then what I know now.
