Chatham Resident a Tumor Survivor at 4

It's nearly a year since little Quinn Lamm was fighting the battle of her young life.

Three-year-old Quinn of Chatham had been complaining of headaches. Preschool teachers started noticing issues with balance. Quinn's pediatrician had her mom Megan start logging Quinn's complaints and an MRI was scheduled, but a sudden onset of vomiting sent Quinn to the emergency room and a CAT-scan revealed her brain tumor (benign, thankfully).

Almost a year later, Quinn is thriving and has been featured on the Morristown Medical Center website. (Read it here.)

Quinn is a Chatham resident. Her grandfather, Todd Lamm of Maplewood, reached out to Patch with her story in hopes that "perhaps it will teach parents to be aware of possible brain tumor symptoms and give parents of children with brain tumors hope."

Todd says Quinn "is now living the life of a normal 4-year-old." But first, her grandmom Kay Lamm said, she had to undergo surgery (on November 15, 2010) for Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma — or JPA — and spend three weeks in the Morristown Medical Center Pediatric ICU. "It does not seem possible that a one-year anniversary is approaching."

"In sharing this article with you all, we feel hopeful that it will inform others what Quinn's symptoms were, so that those with children or who are around children can be aware, which could lead to an early diagnosis and treatment for a child with a brain tumor," said Kay.