Mom Shares Photo of Son Battling Cancer to Show How “It Gets Real, Real Quick”

Recently, a photograph of a child battling cancer surfaced the internet. The mom of the child shared the photograph with an honest caption about how the lives of everyone in her family has completely changed. The photograph has since gone viral!

According to the American Childhood Cancer Organization, 15,000 children ages 21 or under are diagnosed with cancer every year, leaving 1/4 who won’t survive.

“It is about to get real, real hard and real quick.”

“For anyone battling cancer or enduring chemotherapy. For anyone going through this horrible disease. It is about to get real, real hard and real quick,” one unnamed mother wrote in a Feb. 15 Facebook post, which was shared on the Love What Matters page. “The picture I’m posting is from this morning, and before you scream and cry ‘why would she post a picture of him in a pull up, the indecency’, well 1. It doesn’t [sic] show more than swimming jammers would and 2. Because life is not always politically correct and pretty, it is real. Life isn’t pretty, and cancer destroys a person.”

It is her son in the photo. She calls him Drake and is also affectionately known as “Stinky Joe”. She then further describes what life for both has been like for both, with cancer:

“This was this morning after carrying Drake to the bathroom. Yes, he is in a pull up because 75% of the time he can’t control his bathroom habits. This is skin and bones, because I have to beg him to eat ONE green bean for supper, or drink a cup of water throughout the day. 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.”

“Childhood cancer remains the number one disease killer of children in the United States today, and the leading cause of death for children between the ages of 4 and 14 after unintended fatal accidents. Yet despite this sobering fact, childhood cancer remains a silent disease: hidden in the shadows of modern hospitals, left behind by modern miracle cures,” according the American Childhood Cancer Organization’s site.

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