“They thought there were no more signs of the cancer,” dad Lee tells The Bristol Post. Bailey recovered quickly and could even go to school again, although he was forced to go to regular hospital check-ups to ensure that the cancer hadn’t returned.
Sadly, it didn’t take long until the cancer was back, and around Easter last year Bailey was back in the hospital again.
He started a new round of treatments, and was given a 70 percent chance of recovering. But the treatment was tough on his tiny body.
In July he was feeling well enough to leave the hospital again and stay home over the summer. But the cancer didn’t give up, and at the end of August, Bailey was back at the hospital. This time the cancer was worse than ever before.
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He now had stage 4 cancer which had spread to his liver, lungs, and stomach.
The doctor said he only had weeks to live, maybe even days.
But Bailey had a goal: He was going to fight until his little sister was born at the end of November.
And Bailey fought. Those three months were terrible. Although Bailey was constantly deteriorating, the family tried to make his last days fun and memorable.
Bailey was on strong painkillers and was rapidly deteriorating.
When his little sister arrived, he decided that she should be called Millie.
Bailey did everything a big brother does: he hugged his sister, changed her diapers, gave her baths and sang to her. But after Millie arrived, things quickly got worse for Bailey.
According to his diagnosis he shouldn’t have survived long enough to see his sister born. And as soon as he had met her, it became obvious that he didn’t have long left.
On Friday December 22 Bailey was in a hospice.
By Christmas eve the family knew that the end was near and said:
“It’s time to go Bailey. Stop.”
“The moment we said ‘stop’, he took his last breath and had just the one tear come out of his eye. It was peaceful.”
Just before Bailey was taken to the hospice he said something incredibly moving about his baby sister, the family tells The Bristol Post.
“I want to stay but it’s my time to go, to become her guardian angel.”
Bailey was taken from his family far too soon and he will be missed forever.
Losing a loved one is the worst feeling in the world. But we should never forget that they are always in our hearts.
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