Miracle boy defies the odds as two-year rollercoaster reaches final stop

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An emotional two-year journey reached a heart-warming milestone as Newark’s miracle boy, who defied all the odds to ring his end of treatment bell.

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00:00You never picture yourself going through something like this, you only hear about it, you only

00:06see others going through it, so you just think, no, it can't happen to me.

00:10So that alone, when it happens, it makes you feel like, what is going on, it's crazy.

00:26I'm glad that the roller coaster has come to the stop line, you know, and we can now

00:34disembark the ride and Dan can now go and look for other things to do around the fairground

00:42rather than being stuck on that roller coaster.

00:46So yeah, it's amazing.

00:49It's a miracle in actual fact.

00:51To be the one that is the miracle boy, again, it's strange that it's me, it's like, why

00:58is it me, why am I the one that's so special, you know, why, that's all I can say, why,

01:06I still don't understand why.

01:08I think we're still a little bit numb, I think we're still a bit numb, it's almost difficult

01:14to, you're almost scared to, to, to jinx, if you like, yeah, obviously we are over the

01:25moon and it is still quite fresh.

01:31When you are told one thing, such an extreme thing, that you're not going to make it, or

01:37treatment's not working, and then you end up making it, it's almost hard to believe

01:43and you don't know how to feel.

01:45You feel all sorts really, you feel great, you feel, at the same time, awful.

01:54Dan was on, you know, right on the edge of death, literally, and being told that there

02:07was nothing that could be done to go home and make memories, that is such a saying of

02:15the century, that, and then to be in here with him in remission is like, unbelievable.

02:28I remember when I got the news of being told that treatment was working, and the one that

02:38the Brintoxin and Molybdenum out, that ended up working quite well, I remember going into

02:43that room, actually I remember being here first, before, because we came a bit early,

02:50and I just felt, I just felt terrible.

02:54Speaking to the nurses, we were telling them why we're here, and they all knew my journey

02:58and what was going off, so they kind of knew why I was here, and at that point, no one

03:04really expected anything too brilliant to happen because of what was going off, the

03:10odds weren't, they were against us.

03:13So then we went down to the actual appointment, and I remember going in, with my family, and

03:22they actually said, it was, I've had a great response, but I didn't feel much at all, like

03:29you say, I was numb, and I remember that, I remember how I felt not very much, and I

03:36guess it's partly my body just trying to protect itself after my mind, after everything that's

03:43gone off.

03:44Thinking of how it could have been, which you don't want to give too much thought to

03:49how it could have been because it's not the way it is, but you can really appreciate how

03:54things are more when you know what could have been.

03:59I think, honestly, I think things from the situation we were in, it couldn't have gone

04:03much better, really, it really couldn't.

04:06So I can only be grateful.

04:09We had to battle, you know, me and my best friend Wendy Glover.

04:18She was really quite instrumental in a lot of letter writing, telephone calls, the people

04:27that we needed to reach out to, she reached out to, myself holding some very strong, strongly

04:36worded conversations with doctors here, and I think without it, this could have been a

04:42different story altogether.

04:44You've got thinking there's no hope to, he's absolutely back and full of life, so I mean,

04:53are there words, are there words that describe that?

04:56I mean, I think it's just built up emotion, and I think the smiles on people's faces probably

05:02tell you it all, really.

05:05To be honest, I never, never believed that there is no future for Dan.

05:09I always knew that he's a tough cookie, yeah.

05:16I wanted to make sure I was in remission, and that my treatment was done before I did

05:20so, and only then I would have rung the bell, so to know that's all happened, and I'm in

05:26a good place, it's always nice, it's good, it's great that we are where we are, and being

05:31able to do that.

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