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Picture of a 5-year-old sister comforting and supporting her 4-year-old brother with leukemia struggling with the side effects of chemotherapy shows the heartbreaking effects of childhood cancer on the patient's family!!
The Beckett Strong Facebook page posted the picture on September 3 of two siblings, 15 months apart, standing over a toilet as 4-year-old Beckett is sick from his chemotherapy treatments.
The mother has shared a number of photos of her children that capture the heartbreaking reality of childhood cancer.
On April 25, 2018, Beckett was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
The sister Aubrey watched her brother go from an ambulance to the ICU. She watched a dozen doctors throw a mask over her brother's face, poke and prod him with needles, pump a dozen medicines through his body all while her 4-year-old brother lay there helplessly.
The young girl wasn't sure what was happening but she knew that something was wrong with her little brother and her best friend.
After a month in hospital, where Beckett underwent chemo, blood transfusions, and platelet transfusions, he was released from the hospital. His sister watched him struggle to walk and play.
Beckett was no longer lively, energetic and outgoing. He was quiet, sick and very sleepy who never wanted to play.
His sister didn't understand how he was able to walk before this but now she sees that he can't stand without help. All of the different therapies Beckett had to go to to get his strength back was confusing to his sister.
She didn't see it as a therapy, she saw it as something that he got to do that she didn't.
Beckett vomits between play sessions. He wakes up just to throw up. All the while, Beckett's sister never leaves his side.
As Beckett goes from 30 pounds to 20 pounds, she stands next to him, comforts him and supports him.
She'd rub his back and tell him it was going to be okay, clean his face up and wash his hands for him.
Beckett will continue cancer treatments for the next three years and will be undergoing phases where he requires extensive hospital stays and will be admitted for fever and illness.
@medicaltalks
Excellent article 🙂