It's natural for new parents to feel anxious about how things will turn out for their child. Most want the very best for their little ones, so they idea of them having trouble in school or experiencing bullying can be pretty worrying.
However, one of the worst–and fairly well-founded–fears is that they may have to deal with a life-threatening illness before they even get a chance to explore the many wonders that life has in store for them.
This is the situation that a boy in the U.K. now faces, but the outlook is good that it may soon be behind him.
As The New York Times reported, he was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which meant that his bone marrow would stop releasing immature white blood cells.
As his mother, Olivia Saxelby, wrote on Oscar's crowdfunding page, this left him with platelets as low as 14.
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