3-year-old boy with cancer receives an outpouring of support in Bloomingdale
He wore"I am brave" socks and space rocket pajamas when he started another intense round of chemotherapy last month.
Joey has been living with malignant ectomesenchymoma, a soft-tissue cancer, and the sometimes brutal side effects of chemotherapy. After months of treatment, his scans came back clear in April 2022. Joey's hair grew back. Pictures of Joey taken during a cancer-free summer showed a cheerful little boy who took swimming lessons and played with dinosaurs. He was able to start preschool this past November.
His doctors removed a tumor near Joey's lung, surgically inserted a chemo port into his chest and began a new treatment regimen. "Chemotherapy is the only option currently available," he said."With this treatment, Joey will need a miracle to survive. More needs to be done to help Joey and all patients battling this devastating disease. We live in a revolutionary time for medicine. We need to rewrite the book on how to treat cancer and tackle this with tenacity and critical thinking."
She has sparked an outpouring of support and well wishes. Preschool families and staff members bought the #JoeyStrong T-shirts. Vendor CP Creative produced the shirts and arranged to donate all proceeds to Joey's family. The Bloomingdale Bears youth athletic organization -- Joey's father coaches the football team, brother Carmine plays football and sister Giulia is a cheerleader -- also sold its own version of the shirt.
Joey's father expressed gratitude to everyone involved -- his school, the principal, the Bloomingdale Bears, Bloomingdale police, firefighters and St. Walters School in Roselle -- for their support of Joey and his older siblings.
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