The “miracle” behind the photo of a child with cancer being supported by his sister

At just 2 years old, Beckett Burge was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

After several months of chemotherapy, the little boy is fully recovered and managed to return home. He hopes, shortly, to resume his daily activities. He wants to go to school. He wants to play. To run.

Enjoy childhood.

Beckett’s Diagnosis

A few years ago, the photo starring the little Beckett Burge it circulated through digital media and went around the world. In the image you can see that he receives the support of his sister aubrey, a year older than him, who puts a hand on his back while the boy suffers the consequences of chemotherapy.

The case was made known by Kaitlin Burge, their mother, who shared the photos in September 2019 on Facebook in order to raise awareness about the reality of childhood cancer.

“One thing they don’t tell you about childhood cancer is that it affects the whole family. My two children, 15 months apart, went from playing together at school and at home to sitting together in a cold hospital room ”, The woman told the publication, which exceeded 70 thousand reactions on the network and was shared just over 42 thousand times.

“Children need support and bonding, and they should not be kept at a distance from the person who is sick. The most important thing is to show that they are cared for regardless of the situation. She spent a lot of time with him in the bathroom, while he vomited. He stayed with him. Vomiting between gaming sessions. Waking up to vomit. Standing next to his brother and rubbing his back when he is ill. This is childhood cancer ”, added.

The mother made an appeal at that time to different organizations and health entities to help her family. She even invited Donald Trump, then president of USA, so that he would turn his eyes to that crude situation.

“You need to light up the White House for all of our children who are fighting this horrible disease.”, He commented.

At the time, Beckett’s prognosis was not promising.

It all started with an ear infection, but then doctors attributed his health to acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

The harshness of chemotherapy

Beckett he spent about two years undergoing chemotherapy to combat the disease. According to his family, he could not concentrate to start his academic learning: he remained very confused and could not understand several things.

It was a complex process in which his sister Aubrey was accompanying him from beginning to end.

“When he was undergoing chemotherapy she was more of a mother figure,” said Ms Burge in a talk with the British outlet ‘Daily Mail’.

On August 8, the little boy’s sessions ended. Had to go through one last surgery, but this was delayed because it tested positive for covid-19. Despite this, in this month of October the intervention is scheduled by which a port will be removed from the chest, an element that facilitated the injection of medications and blood extraction.

Fortunately, the contagion by covid did not deteriorate his health.

Recovery of the little one

Nowadays, he enjoys his toys at home. He is, again, in the company of his relatives. In fact, Mrs. Burge often shares online the child’s happiness by being in the pool or playing with her sister.

Her hair has grown back and she is learning to read and walk again.

“They told me to delay the garden for a year due to the treatment. I have said no. This child overcame cancer, there is nothing he cannot do ”, Burge argued.

What’s more: sometimes he wants to be more independent and gives up the collaboration that his sister offers him.

“She is struggling with it, as he has now found his inner voice and every time she tries to help him, he says, ‘I can do it alone.’ the woman revealed.

Although there are side effects of the treatment, such as leg pain, the family sees a child with greater self-confidence. They hope that all goes well in the extraction of the port so that Beckett continues with his ‘return to life’.

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