A local family is dealing with the unthinkable: Their only child is suffering from cancer.
News Center 7′s Taylor Robertson talked to a Troy Firefighter whose 9-month-old is battling Leukemia as he and his wife fight to keep him alive.
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“We’ve seen Christmas and New Year come and go in the hospital,” Patrick O’Neill said.
O’Neill and his wife Kimberly spent three years on I-V-F doing everything they could to get pregnant. On May 12, 2023, their first and only son Nolan was born.
“It was a little bit of a journey to get to this point,” O’Neill said.
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Then just five months later, they took Nolan to the emergency room for flu symptoms, but left with a Leukemia diagnosis.
“I’d say like the first month was pretty much a blur, it was a lot of information, that was a lot of people with a lot of doctors,” O’Neill said.