A sad moment happened when a 6-year-old boy said goodnight to his little sister for the last time. The boy’s dad, Matt Sooter, took a picture of this moment. The sister, 4-year-old Adalynn, was very sick with a rare kind of cancer.
Matt said, “A little boy should not have to say goodbye to his partner in crime, his playmate, his best friend, his little sister.”
The photo touched the hearts of more than 8,000 people. Now, the family wants to tell more people about this rare disease.
In 2016, the Sooter family’s life changed a lot. Doctors told them that their daughter had Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a rare tumor that starts in the brainstem.
Adalynn, or Addy, had to deal with the growing tumor inside her for 18 months until things got worse.