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Parents of 'Super Ty' carry on without their son

Cindy Campbell with her son Ty, 5, while

Photo credit: Courtesy of the Campbell family | Cindy Campbell with her son Ty, 5, while he was in hospice care at their home in Pawling in October 2012.

"Super Ty" Campbell, the 5-year-old Pawling boy whose battle against a rare brain cancer was tenderly chronicled in his mother's widely read blog, was cremated Thursday morning in Hartsdale.

A memorial service still has not been scheduled because "we are just so exhausted," his mom, Cindy Campbell, 37, told Newsday on Thursday.

In her blog post about Ty's last hours, she described how...

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