Mother Shares Photo Of Her Son With Cancer To Raise Awareness

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A devastating photo of a child with cancer has gone viral, raising awareness of how this disease affects the entire family. Kaitlin Burge, who has three children, shared the photo of her son Beckett, who has leukemia on Facebook. The image shows the boy bent over the toilet wanting to vomit, while his sister rubs his back as a sign of solidarity.

“Something they don't tell you about childhood cancer is that it affects the entire family. You always hear about the financial and medical problems it brings, but who is talking about the battle that families with more children face?”Wrote the mother next to the photo, referring to how Beckett's fight also emotionally affects his brothers. healthy.

"It will be difficult for some to see and read this," continues the mother's message, who explains that her son Becket and her older sister went "from playing together at school and at home, to sitting together in the cold room of a hospital".

According to the account that the Burge family created for GroupMe Fundraiser donations, last April Becket was diagnosed with a type of high-risk leukemia, in addition to pneumonia in his left lung and respiratory failure. There is also a PayPal Pool account to raise money to help the mother pay for the costs of treating the child.

"My then 4-year-old girl saw how her brother was taken by ambulance to an intensive care unit," adds the mother. “He saw a dozen doctors put a mask on his face and prick him with needles, put a lot of medicine on his body while he was still lying there defenseless. She did not understand what was happening. All I knew was that something was wrong with her little brother, who is her best friend.” Burge details the confusion his daughter felt when she saw how her brother went from being an energetic child to becoming "a quiet, sick and very sleepy boy".

Although the girl found it difficult to understand why her brother could no longer accompany her to jump on the trampoline or to the water games, she remained by her side. The photo of both has caused a great commotion, generating more than 4,000 comments and 46,000 reactions, in addition to being shared more than 29,000 times. "Today they are closer than ever," concludes the mother about her children. "She always takes care of him."