HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A local family and their medical team are moving forward with an experimental antifungal medication imported from Sweden in a last-ditch effort to save the life of a 2-year-old battling leukemia and a life-threatening fungal infection.
Noah Legg is currently on a ventilator at Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham, where his family said a fungal infection has complicated his ongoing fight with leukemia. Physicians determined the best treatment option would be surgery, but Noah’s underlying conditions make that impossible.
“The best course of action would be to remove the lower part of his left lung,” said Koal Legg, Noah’s father. “But with his underlying conditions, like the cancer and his being a bleed risk from that, he can’t have the surgery.”…