LAD’S COLD IS CANCER
A MUM has spoken of her heartache after her footballmad son died of cancer aged nine just a week after she thought he had a cold.
Josh Harber, nicknamed Smiler, came home from school feeling sick but days later a blood test revealed he had an acute form of leukaemia.
Mum Danielle, 39, from Dover, said: “At hospital Josh was full of beans, making the nurses laugh and talking about his brothers and his football team whilst getting hooked up to the machines. He was so brave.
“He started to deteriorate. We were in disbelief. How could our boy, who was perfectly healthy a week ago, be so poorly?
“Josh gained his wings in the early hours of Tuesday,
July 9 with my husband and
I lying either side of him while listening to his favourite Ed Sheeran album.”
In a loving tribute to their son, Danielle and husband
Dean, 39, said: “Josh was such an inspirational boy and touched so many lives.
“He was such a caring loving boy that looked out for everyone. He played football for Dover Rangers and the chairman has organised for a little gold star to be placed on their kit in memory of Josh.”
The couple are raising money for research into the disease with the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group in Josh’s memory.
See cclg.org.uk/joshs-gold-star-fund for details.
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