His parents had been worried for a while that their Lego-loving son kept having low-grade fevers which made him very lethargic. “They were 37.8C, maybe pushing 38C, but they were to the point where he would not even sit upright. “The paediatrician said to me, ‘Eddie has a mass half the size of one of his lungs showing up on his chest X-ray. “It literally was like the world had gone into slow motion,” Mrs Pessoa de Araujo explained. Eddie and Leo (Family handout/PA)“The next day, he was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL).”Eddie had steroids to reduce the size of the mass and was put on chemotherapy straight away.

Source: The Star July 02, 2024 09:17 UTC