Parents of a 3-year-old boy with leukemia pulled him out of treatment and decided to move to another state to seek a second opinion.
Noah was diagnosed with leukemia and underwent chemotherapy at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in Florida. However, his parents, 22-year-old Taylor Bland-Ball and 27-year-old Joshua Mcadams said the treatment made him violent and resulted in mood swings.
The mom also said that after 10 days of treatment, results showed no sign of cancer cells. They were allowed to leave the hospital but they wanted to get a second opinion about natural options – something she claimed the hospital didn’t like.
“They called us about a thousand times,” Bland-Ball said to NBC News. “We left and we went up to Kentucky. … We just wanted the time to get our second opinion.”
One week after they missed the start of Noah’s second round of chemo, police officers put out a missing child alert, saying Bland-Ball and McAdams “refused to follow up with the life-saving medical care the child needs.”
After finding the family, officers took away custody and placed the child with his grandparents.
The parents’ attorney said that they want to treat the boy’s cancer with medical marijuana, diet, vitamins and CBD oil. However, Bland-Ball said their legal fight isn’t about the treatment plan.
“This is not about whether we’re choosing natural therapies, alternative therapies,” she said to Good Morning America. “This is about our rights as parents to seek other options.”
Two doctors at the trial argued that chemotherapy was immediately necessary but the parents and their lawyer brought in another family that said chemo almost killed their child.
The judge ruled that the 3-year-old must finish an additional 28 days of chemo. His parents are allowed to use alternative treatments, such as medical marijuana, once cleared by his doctors.
“While we were disappointed he has to start chemotherapy tomorrow, we are encouraged the judge gives him an opportunity to use additional treatments to treat him, to not only help him have less side effects from the chemotherapy [but to] help kill the cancer,” the family’s attorney said.
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