But last week, when the Michigan teenager pulled up to the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, he wasn’t there for radiation, and he wasn’t there for more procedures.

He was there to deliver toys.

About 3,800 of them, which he was bringing to the young patients at the hospital.

“It’s hard to imagine what it would be like without Christmas,” Bint told The Washington Post in a phone interview. “Because Christmas is pretty much the best holiday of the year if you’re a little kid, because you get everything you want. And they might not get everything that [they] want. But at least they get a Christmas.”

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Bint, a sophomore at Airport High School in Carleton, Mich., delivered the collection with students from a high school club on Friday afternoon, said Byron Myer, Mott Children’s Hospital community relations coordinator. The toys will be part of an annual event that allows parents of young patients to select their kids’ holiday gifts at no cost. Some toys will also go to a hospital department that helps with birthdays and special events, or with other programs in the facility.

Bint’s toy drop-off was a big deal, Myer said: “I think it was amazing, because he comes from such a small community, and it really seemed like the entire community got into this.”

Bint’s own battle with cancer has been brutal. As the Detroit Free Press put it: “He was diagnosed with cancer early last year, and has already had brain surgery to remove another tumor. He had radiation, and chemo before being declared cancer-free in July. By September, a new tumor had begun to grow.”

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His grandmother, Doreen Bint, told the newspaper that Connor “wanted to give up, but we told him not to. If he gives up, he’ll be gone in two months.”

“He’ll always be stage 4, and will always be on chemo,” she added. “If he needs to have another surgery, we’ll leave it up to him.”

On the day of the drop-off at the hospital, according to the Free Press, “after Connor and his friends brought in five carts loaded with boxes of gifts, nausea struck the teen, and he had to excuse himself to be sick.”

According to the Bay City Times, the toy drive at Airport High began after word spread Bint’s cancer had returned.

The Connor Bint Toy Drive was promoted across campus by the Interact Club, a student branch of the Rotary Club.

Myer, a hospital spokesman, said donations also came from students at Bint’s former school. And more toys are expected in a few days, when Bint is scheduled to take in another load.

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“They wanted to really get behind this young man,” Myer said. “It’s kind of a scary thing that happened.”

He’s not kidding. Bint was a typical high schooler — he played three sports, he was active, he got decent grades — at the time of his diagnosis. He was suffering some nasty nosebleeds, and eventually doctors found the mass.

Fast-forward just a few months, and suddenly he’s nonchalantly describing surgery in a conversation with a stranger (“They put my skull on …”) and the unfortunate problems with chemo and basketball (“I don’t want to be in the middle of a game or practice and throw up all over the floor …”).

He said the tumor in his brain was the size of the peanut, until it was the size of a baseball, until it was the size of a softball. Around the time it was removed last month, the toy drive began in earnest in Carleton.

“I wasn’t really to help kick it off, because I was in the hospital and everything,” Bint said.