Seven-year-old boy was stabbed in the back in training: it saved his life
'22.09.2020'
Source: Medialeaks
The young footballer was kicked in the back by a peer during training, but he should be thanked for this kick. After all, the pain from a minor bruise helped the boy's parents find out what really happened to their son's body. It turned out that he was slowly destroyed by a fatal illness, and only thanks to that blow he survived, writes Medialeaks.
Knowing about a dangerous disease in time is a chance that not everyone gets, and sometimes such an unpleasant truth is revealed by chance. A teenager named Cooper who lives in Sydney with his family has had a difficult journey. When the boy was seven years old, he learned that he was seriously ill, only thanks to a kick from a peer, writes Nine.com.
Then, in 2010, during training, Cooper was kicked in the back, but the injury was not very serious: the boy just continued to play. True, the usual injury did not go away, the damaged area ached and ached.
For a week, the discomfort did not go away. Mark and Lisa, Cooper's parents, decided to take him to the doctor. A local therapist examined the child and immediately referred him to a clinic in the suburbs of Sydney to have the patient tested for oncology.
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So the parents learned that their son had cancer, and the tumor in his kidneys weighs nearly a kilogram. Lisa and Mark found it hard to believe, and even harder to tell Cooper what he was sick with.
The doctors decided that they would have to remove the child's left kidney and part of his colon. Both surgeries were performed after a six-month course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. But the family's suffering did not end there. Three months after the procedures, doctors examined Cooper and found that the cancer was still spreading.
Doctors told the boy's family that his chances of survival decreased after a relapse of the disease. But after nine difficult months of chemotherapy, the young patient recovered.
Parents were afraid to believe in their son's amazing recovery.
“I knocked on wood every time, it was fantastic,” - quoted Nine.com as saying Mark.
Cooper is now 17, and, according to his father, he grew up surprisingly cheerful young man. Now the guy is finishing school and learning to drive his first car. Cooper is absolutely healthy, but he regularly goes to doctors for examination and tries to monitor his condition.
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The boyfriend's relatives have not forgotten how hard it was for them when he was ill, so now they organize charity events to help children with cancer. Mark is sure that they themselves managed to go through such a test only because they are a strong family.
