KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Doctors at Children’s Mercy Hospital are calling it “a Christmas miracle.”
Seven-year-old Noah Wilson has been declared cancer-free after fighting the disorder most of the year. It’s the news Wilson and his family have been waiting eight months to receive. Doctors at the hospital have given Noah a clean bill of health. The family was notified of the good news on Thursday.
Back in April, it was a different story, as the boy from Olathe was diagnosed as having Ewing Sarcoma, a rare bone disease that threatened to end his life after a large tumor welled up on his spine.
“Everything was normal, and I was just sitting around and once I heard that news, I was like, ‘Wait, what? My tumor is gone?’ Noah said, recalling the moment he got the good news.
“It’s still sinking in to us,” Deborah Wilson, Noah’s mother, said. “It’s so surreal to hear that Noah’s moving in the right direction. To hear that positive news is great to hear.”
The Wilsons gathered national media attention after Noah’s Band Aids 4 U project took hold. During Noah’s eight months of treatments, he collected donated boxes of colorful band-aids. So far, his family has delivered over five thousand boxes of superhero and cartoon bandages to the hospital.
Deb Wilson says national attention has translated into millions of supporters after Noah’s story was seen coast-to-coast.
“The community that we’ve been a part of is way larger than we ever thought of,” Deb Wilson said. “We’ve had ups and downs. As a family, we’ve been through so much.”
For the short run, Noah is still a patient at the hospital, being treated for an infection that’s causing a high fever. Learning that he’s in remission couldn’t be more special to the Wilsons.
“That was a big Christmas wish that was on my Christmas list was having it all be gone,” Noah Wilson said.
Deb Wilson says she hopes to take Noah home from the hospital on Saturday. She says the family owes this hospital a great debt, and getting this good news was the perfect Christmas gift.
Deb Wilson says Noah isn’t completely out of the woods. He’ll need medical checkups every three months for the rest of his life.
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