Merced family faces setback in Son's cancer treatment as home destroyed by fire

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Merced household is facing the unimaginable aft they learned their 3-year-old son's crab attraction has stopped working, and conscionable weeks later, their location was destroyed successful a fire.

Luke Benson was diagnosed with a cancerous encephalon tumor past year. Since then, his parents person discontinue their jobs to attraction for him full-time. The family's challenges deepened erstwhile doctors precocious paused Luke's attraction aft it failed to bring his crab into remission.

"He inactive wasn't capable to scope remission," said his parent Jallussee Medina-Benson. "So his doctors gave him a non-curable diagnosis."

Luke has besides been diagnosed with HLH, a uncommon and life-threatening humor disease. Despite enduring aggregate rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, his information has worsened.

"Going from having a two-year-old who was moving and jumping and playing, and losing each of that and lone getting glimpses, that's been the astir challenging part," Medina-Benson said.

As the household grappled with the devastating news, calamity struck again. A fire, believed to person been started by a candle, tore done their home. Medina-Benson said her hubby was capable to get each of their children retired safely, but the household mislaid everything inside.

"I got a telephone from my hubby saying that our location is connected fire," Medina-Benson said. "They were waiting astatine our vicinity friend's house."

The United Way has stepped successful to assistance the household unafraid impermanent housing.

Despite the back-to-back tragedies, Medina-Benson said her children's resilience has kept them going.

"Life moves on, I guess," Medina-Benson said. "The lone happening that has gotten america done it arsenic parents has been seeing however resilient and determined our kids are, and however brave they've been."

A GoFundMe run primitively launched to assistance nonstop Luke to Disneyland is present being utilized to regenerate items mislaid successful the fire. Still, the household hopes to fulfill Luke's imagination of visiting the taxable park.

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