Earlier this holiday season TV3 Winchester told you about an Iowa boy in his second battle with leukemia and his hope for one million cards this Christmas.

The big day has come and gone and the quest for cards is coming to an end.

The cards are still flowing in. Over 300,000 have already been received.

“I think it's been a blessing that we've been able to get this much help and they've shown their appreciation and shown the've really appreciated what everyone has come together to do,” says Krista Tatum, a West Virginia University sophomore who collected cards for Max.

Tatum learned a lot from the experience, and has a message to everyone who helped out with Max's cards.

“I'm just really thankful to everyone who showed that even though he's 1000 miles away and we don't know him, we still care about other human beings and we can take time out of our daily routine to care about someone else,” says Tatum.

Gail VanVoorhis told Tatum about Max and also spoke with Max's family. The cards were delivered on Christmas, but Max almost wasn' t there to receive them.

“They did not think they'd get him home for Christmas. They got him home and he still wasn't feeling too well. They were afraid Christmas day wouldn't be a good one, but it was. He made it through Christmas day, and in the last day or two he's done much better,” says VanVoorhis.

Max has seen all the cards and is overwhelmed by the outpour of support.

“He has been able to start reading some of them, but there's only so many you can read in a day when you've got close to a million,” says Tatum.

While Max is inspired that his wish has been made a reality, he just wants to be a kid.

“Today his mom said he was at a friend's house playing a PS3 game for the first time in months, out there with his buddies. She was just very, very happy to see it,” says VanVoorhis.

VanVoorhis said they had to actual tell people to stop sending cards because of the overflow.

Support came from over half the states in the country and as far as China, Wales and Great Britain.

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