For the first time in years, we finally started feeling like a normal family.
Until one afternoon, Leo came home from school and said:
“Mom, my leg hurts.”
At first, I thought he had fallen or injured himself while playing.
But the pain didn’t go away.
More tests followed.
One morning, the doctor called.
His first words were:
“Anna, I’d like you and your husband to come in together.”
My heart tightened before he even said anything else.
Daniel drove the entire way to the hospital without speaking.
In the doctor’s office, we learned that Leo had been diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma.
I immediately asked:
“Okay. When do we start treatment?”
The doctor went quiet.
The tests showed that the disease had already spread.
Over the following months, they tried everything that still made medical sense to try.
But one day, we were called into the hospital again.
