5-Year-Old Boy Battling Cancer Asks for Christmas Cards

A young boy with cancer has a simple wish this Christmas.

Hayden Drake, of Greenville, North Carolina, has been battling leukemia as well as the effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatments since earlier this year.

To make the holidays extra special, Hayden is asking for one thing: as many Christmas cards as possible.

The 5-year-old gets so excited to see new cards with his name on them in the mailbox that his mother, Summery Avery, says he even does a little “happy dance” when he receives one.

"Yesterday, he got five cards in the mail and he does this little happy dance and he was doing the happy dance the whole time he was reading the cards," Avery said.

Hayden is in remission from his cancer, but will need treatments for the next three years.