{"id":194440,"date":"2019-01-24T15:59:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T21:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=194440"},"modified":"2019-01-22T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T22:13:59","slug":"excited-brother-fights-cancer-long-enough-meet-new-baby-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/excited-brother-fights-cancer-long-enough-meet-new-baby-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"Excited brother fought cancer long enough to meet his new baby sister"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2016, Lee and Rachel Cooper got the news no parent ever wants to hear: their little boy, Bailey, had cancer. After being sick over the summer, doctors diagnosed Bailey with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and it was already Stage Three<\/a>. At first, doctors thought he would survive, and after a round of chemotherapy, Bailey went into remission in 2017. But when the family went on a vacation, they found out it had come back.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the second day, we were in Paignton Zoo when we had a phone call from the hospital that he had relapsed and they needed him back in. Bailey showed signs that he was breathless and tired,” Lee told the New York Post. \u201cThe doctors threw the book at it and told us even if he survived it, the long-term effects will last for the rest of his life. He had a stem cell transplant. We had to try everything we could.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bailey went into remission again, but just a month later, the cancer returned again, and this time, it was everywhere. Doctors found tumors in Bailey’s chest, lungs, liver, and stomach. There was nothing more that could be done, and Bailey was not expected to survive for long. But he kept in good spirits. \u201cBailey smiled through it all,” Lee said. “He pulled funny faces and made people laugh, even though he was in so much pain.\u201d<\/p>\n