08/11/2021 11:06
Clarín.com
International
Updated 08/11/2021 11:43 AM
A 10-year-old boy found out he had cancer from a stranger who stopped him on the street and congratulated him on being so brave.
David Lally's parents, Chris and Kelly, took him to the hospital for tests after he began to feel ill and suffer
from headaches and "right eye blinks."
In December, he was diagnosed with three large brain tumors
and several smaller ones, but his parents didn't want to scare him by telling him.
They only told him he had "little bumps", but after a passerby told him
"you're fighting cancer well buddy"
, they had no choice but to break the news to him.
David, who lives in Wallasey, in Merseyside County, England, underwent chemotherapy and now has scars on his bald head, which his parents say he is "ashamed of."
So, in a moving show of solidarity,
his father Chris told him that he would get a tattoo to "replicate" the exact same scars.
David Lally, the boy has cancer and is undergoing treatment.
"We are in battle together and I want him to know it. Whatever he has to go through, I will go through with him."
Coping with the pain of getting a head tattoo was worth it.
"David came with me to look, so I made a face that it didn't hurt. The tattoo artist took about an hour," he recalled.
"He was sitting next to me and he was dying of laughter. He said" Dad, this is great. "David must now undergo six chemotherapy sessions before a study in his head will show whether the treatment worked or not.
The little boy is fighting cancer in his head.
However, Chris says that a scan performed in March after his son's radiation therapy showed promising results, as only a few "pieces" of the tumors remained.
By July, the family had raised $ 5,500 for the Owen McVeigh Foundation and Clatterbridge Hospital.
Some of the money also went to gifts for David's room nurses, cleaners and cooks.
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