Exclusive - This Photo of a 10-Year-Old Boy Battling Cancer Will Break Your Heart to Pieces!

While we all have different battles to fight everyday, there is nothing more difficult than battling for your own life. Cancer has taken so many lives and continues to disrupt families, friendships, and ways of living up to this day. Even more heartbreaking are kids who live with Cancer.

This is the exact reason why this post by Jessica Medinger earned an overwhelming attention and sympathy among the netizens. She posted a photo of her 10-year-old son Drake, aka Stinky Joe, fighting the disease. In the photo, Drake was in the toilet, holding his side, wearing only his pull-up diapers, with pain written all over his face.

In a Facebook page called Stinky Joe's Pit Crew, Jessica shared: “Drake was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia B-Cell (A.L.L. B Cell) on Sept 29, 2012. He reached the milestone of maintenance on June 6, 2013. This page is dedicated to his fight with childhood cancer. Drake is an avid Cars fan and enjoys demo derby’s and figure 8’s. We ask that you join his “Pit Crew” in support of him and his fight.”

The photo gained so much attention from among the netizens, and as striking as it is, what Jessica wrote in the caption made it all the more heartbreaking.

“This is having your son sleep with you at night because he is afraid of something happening and being alone, and by something I mean dying. This is having middle of the night conversations with a ten year old, asking if he dies will he go to heaven and will he see his dad there and be able to talk and play with him. This is him being too weak to get out of bed or walk and needing to be carried or in a wheelchair. This is him falling asleep as someone is talking to him, because he is too exhausted. This is him, throwing up every medication I give him and him dry heaving because his stomach is empty except for the spoonful of yogurt I just gave him with his pills. This is having to take 44 chemo pills last week in a matter of 24 hours. This is him telling me, “mommy, Im not going to make it.”

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"This is him not wanting to be touched, because it hurts too much, and using morphine to get through his day. This is him telling me he is scared and thinks he wont see his 11th birthday. This is him and me, telling him that I will continue to fight for him when he cant. This is him and me, and our world.”

“This is him, Drake, Stinky Joe, my whole world. From the moment I found out I was pregnant till future forever, he has been my reason for life. He is my smile, my love, my heartbeat. He is also my tears, my heart ache, my frowns. He is my life.”

Jessica tries to raise awareness for childhood Cancer, noting that it only gets 4% of fhe research funding.

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Source: TNP , scarymommy

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