The five-year-old boy who sold 3,000 monster drawings to pay for his own cancer treatment

By Daily Mail Reporter

A little boy fighting cancer is selling pictures he has drawn of his favourite monsters to pay for the treatment that could save his life.
Aidan Reed, five, from Kansas City, U.S., was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia on September 13 last year.
Since then he has undergone weeks of treatment as well as chemotherapy, infections, spinal taps and other painful procedures.



Fighter: Aidan Reed, five, from Kansas, U.S., has sold nearly 3,000 of his monster drawings and has managed to fund the treatment for his leukaemia




Parents Katie and Wiley were devastated by the diagnosis, but were given hope when experts said the type of cancer Aidan suffers from has a 90 per cent cure rate.

But the family faced a mountain of hospital bills and had to put their home on the market to fund treatment.
Amazingly, that sale is now on hold thanks to the idea of turning Aidan's passion for drawing monsters into a money-generating life-saver.
The little boy has sold more than 3,000 drawings, many of them sketched in his hospital bed as he underwent gruelling treatment.
Total sales topped more than $30,000 and Aidan has sold enough that his family were able to take their home off the market and they no longer require further funding for his care.







Brave: Aidan was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in September last year and has undergone gruelling treatment including chemotherapy and spinal taps





Devoted: Aidan with his parents and Katie and Wiley, who put their home in Kansas on the market after his diagnosis