Community rallies around 3-year-old Merced boy with brain cancer and rare blood disorder

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- Last year, a Merced household got the heartbreaking quality that their two-year-old lad had been diagnosed with a cancerous encephalon tumor, arsenic good arsenic a uncommon humor disorder.

Now, the household is being told they indispensable spell retired of authorities for specialized attraction and the assemblage is stepping up to enactment them connected their journey.

Luke Benson has a large contagious grin and loves cars, Toy Story, and Bluey.

When helium was two, helium started throwing up, and didn't halt for astir a month.

His parents rapidly took him to the infirmary and aft extended tests helium was diagnosed with Medulloblastoma benignant three.

Doctors aboriginal recovered retired Luke has cancerous tumors increasing connected his encephalon and down his spine, on with a uncommon humor disorder.

"I deliberation initially we were successful daze and benignant of you cognize figuring retired what we're going to do, what it was going to beryllium like," says Jallussee Medina-Benson, Luke's mom.

The household has been successful and retired of the infirmary for adjacent to a twelvemonth now, archetypal astatine Valley Children's and past UCSF.

After respective rounds of assertive chemotherapy sessions, Luke yet mislaid his quality to walk, jump, and play.

Now, due to the fact that his information is truthful rare, Luke is being referred to Mayo Clinic successful Arizona and his full household has to relocate for implicit 2 months.

"Nothing is ever the same. It's ever changing with him being capable to you know, set the plan," says Medina-Benson.

While they are hopeful and adaptable the determination volition beryllium hard for the household of six.

A GoFundMe has been acceptable up truthful they tin rent a U-Haul to transport each of Luke's aesculapian supplies, and so, they tin rent a spot successful Arizona truthful Luke tin beryllium astir family.

"It's been truly hard to effort and isolate him but springiness him the state that helium wants. He doesn't get to spell to spell to Target oregon Walmart oregon Costco the aforesaid mode that helium utilized to. He utilized to emotion to spell buying and helium doesn't get to bash that anymore," says Medina-Benson.

So far, the household has already received hundreds of dollars successful donations but are inactive abbreviated of their extremity of $10,000.

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