Boy With Cancer Fights Long Enough to Meet Baby Sister
9-Year-Old Boy With Cancer Fought Long Enough to Meet His Baby Sister Before Passing
Despite this bleak prognosis, the boy was determined to meet his new little sister, the third addition to the brood after him and his younger brother, Riley, but his parents say those three months weren't easy and that Bailey's condition deteriorated rapidly. "Doctors said he was going to go before Millie was born. He didn't. He fought, and on the way to hospital, he said we should call her Millie," Lee said. "But the moment after he met her, he began to taper off quickly. He was slipping away."
Regardless of the pain, Bailey was as doting as any older brother would be, helping out with his sister and cuddling her. As things got worse, he told his family: "I want to stay but it's my time to go, to become her guardian angel." On Dec. 22, Bailey was brought into hospice, and on Christmas Eve afternoon, after his parents let him know that it was OK to stop fighting, he took his last breath with his mom and dad by his side.
