Tommy Forsythe is just like every other seventh-grader at Chesapeake Bay Middle School; he loves playing video games, watching horror movies, eating sushi or just hanging out with his best friend. The only difference is he is battling leukemia.

Since being diagnosed earlier this year, Tommy has endured numerous spinal taps, bone marrow biopsies, chemotherapy, radiation, infections, and a bone marrow transplant, his family said. .

He is now in Johns Hopkins Children's Center battling veno-occlusive disease, which is related to the bone marrow transplant. His mother Lolly Forsythe, who has been at his hospital bedside since he...