An 11-year-old boy who has had cancer for more than half of his life has revealed he is refusing life-lengthening treatment.
In a Facebook post titled “The Beginning of the End”, Reece Puddington told his friends and supporters that his mother is “letting him go.”
“After careful consideration, my mum thought that if she was doing it for herself she would keep sending me for treatment as she wouldn’t want to let me go, but if she was doing it for me she’d let me go.”
Reece, from Kent in the UK, was diagnosed in 2008 with neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nervous system. He successfully underwent chemotherapy treatment but later suffered a recurrence in the form of a liver tumour and was advised by doctors that his disease was terminal.
He wrote on Facebook, “After the latest scan results, I was sent home to rest and think over the two possible options.
“I could opt for another trial but this would mean travelling a lot to the hospital and coping with the side effects but could also hopefully extend my life.
“Or I could simply do nothing, stay at home and let nature take its course which would lead to me losing my life slightly earlier than if I’d had more treatment.”
Reece has made a bucket list of things he wants to do before he dies. They include meeting actor Johnny Depp, seeing his mum learn to drive and building a hobbit house in his garden.
