{"id":767068,"date":"2026-09-11T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767068\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:42:09","slug":"boy-dying-of-cancer-told-mum-i-dont-want-to-be-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767068\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy dying of cancer told mum: &#8216;I don&#8217;t want to be forgotten&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In July that year, Jake was diagnosed with stage three, fusion-positive alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was really difficult to get our heads round because Jake had seemed so well up until that point,&#8221; said Lynsey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was really hard to imagine that he had a cancerous tumour actually the size that it was &#8211; the size of an egg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jake underwent nine rounds of chemotherapy and proton beam radiotherapy, but Lynsey said it was &#8220;really, really hard going&#8221; and he had &#8220;no energy at all&#8221;, with the medication making him feel unwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the cancer spread into the fluid around his brain and spinal cord, Jake &#8220;made the decision himself&#8221; to stop treatment, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He made what I think is the most brave decision in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I remember having a conversation with him where he told me that if he didn&#8217;t have long to live then he&#8217;d rather live without constantly feeling tired and sickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In July that year, Jake was diagnosed with stage three, fusion-positive alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. &#8220;It was really difficult to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}