A 14-year-old girl from Tennessee got the best Christmas gift of her life when doctors told her that after a nearly two-year-battle, her cancer had gone into remission.
Chloe Cress was just 12 years old when she developed a limp that was soon joined by a fever and back pain and doctors found a massive tumor near her heart after the incident. The cancer was already spread to other parts of her body.
Doctors told her family Chloe had alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma which is rare cancer that develops in the soft tissue of skeletal muscle, or in organs such as the bladder or uterus.
“It just scares the life out of you,” Chloe’s father, Shawn Cress, told the outlet of the diagnosis in June 2018. “You just think, ‘I’m gonna lose my kid.’ And it’s really helpless, because there’s nothing you can do.”
The family immediately relocated to Memphis so Chloe could continue treatment at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, more than seven hours away from their home in Kingsport.
“I was worried about something happening to the whole family because of me,” Chloe told CNN. “I mean like money problems, and all sorts of things like that. Unable to have the same house that I grew up in, having my dogs, having everything I love that isn’t allowed to be at St. Jude.”
But the family will cherish this year’s Christmas forever as Chloe beat stage 4 cancer just before Christmas after an 18-month battle.
A GoFundMe has been formed on behalf of Chloe’s father to raise money to treat the girl and her family to an extra special holiday this year.
“This [Christmas] is more exciting,” Shawn told CNN of his daughter coming home after the long hospital stay, “because it’s for good.”
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