15 months is a lot or a little? Looking for what. For happiness - a little. To part - a lot. Bailey Cooper 15 months struggled with cancer. Lymphoma was found when it was too late to do something. Metastases spread all over the body of the child. No, this does not mean that relatives and doctors did not try. We tried. But it was impossible to help the boy. 15 months to fight a deadly disease - it's a lot. 15 months to say goodbye to your dying child is unbearable. The doctors gave Bailey much less time. He had to die six months ago. But his mother, Rachel, was pregnant with a third child. And Bailey was determined to live to see the baby.
Photos: facebook.com/rachel.hollyman "The doctors said that he would not last until the birth of his sister. We did not believe it, Bailey was already fading. But our boy was fighting. He instructed us to call him as soon as the baby was born, "said Lee and Rachel, the boy's parents. Christmas was approaching. Will Bailey survive until the holiday? Hardly. But his parents still asked him to write a letter to Santa. The boy wrote. Only in the list were not the gifts that he himself would have dreamed of. He asked for things that would please his younger brother, six-year-old Riley. And he himself continued to wait for the meeting with the sister. And finally the girl was born. Brother and sister met. "Bailey did everything that the elder brother had to do: he changed the diaper, washed, sang a lullaby for her," Rachel recalls.
Photo: @rachel.hollymanParenek did everything he wanted: he survived all the predictions of doctors, won his battle at death, saw his little sister and came up with a name for her. The girl was called Millie. And then Bailey began to fade before his eyes, as if after he had achieved his goal, he had no reason to hold on to life. "This is so unfair. In his place was supposed to be me, "cried the grandmother of the brave little boy. And he told her that you can not be so selfish, because she still has grandchildren to take care of - Riley and little Millie. Baili even left an order about how his funeral should go. He wanted everyone dressed up in superhero costumes. He strictly forbade his parents to cry for more than 20 minutes. After all, they must concentrate on his sister and brother. On December 22, a month after Milly's birth, Bailey was taken to the hospice. On Christmas Eve, everyone gathered at his bedside. The boy looked at the faces of his relatives for the last time, sighed for the last time. "A single teardrop rolled out from under his eyelids. He seemed to fall asleep. " My relatives try not to cry. After all, this was asked by Bailey himself.
