Luca, now six, ended the treatment in June 2023 and he is free of illness for two years. The five -year figure is considered a milestone where the cancer will probably not return. When his type of cancer returns, this usually happens in the lungs, Nicole explains, so he still has three years to go.
The cancer your perspective changes
“The largest that parents want people to know is that we are here and (our children) survive. But at what costs?”
For really young children with cancer such as Luca, who thorn so much at the age of three, are hair loss and nausea how life is. People tell Nicole that it is amazing that this happened when he was so young, and he will not remember the hard parts. But there is much to be seen in the coming years.
“Yes, it is amazing in the sense that he knows nothing else. And so he really thought that this is exactly what children are going through. He sees other children, he makes friends in the hospital. He didn’t really have friends because of Covid. So he doesn’t know what is normal for him. We talked about his cancer. We called it his ball in his stomach.”
Parents and carers are also deeply affected by childhood cancer. For Nicole it has changed her perspective.
“It really let me see what makes me happy. I think once you go through this experience, you realize that the most important thing is not to fear every day, because it can literally be removed under you within two seconds to see a three -year -old who almost died,” she says.
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