'He is my smile, he is my 涙／ほころびs, he is my life': Mom 株 heartbreaking image of 癌-stricken son, 10, who's 脅すd to sleep alone in 事例／患者 he dies in the night

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A Texas mother has 株d a heart-rending photograph of her 10-year-old son's 戦う／戦い with 白血病 in an 成果／努力 to show the struggles both of them 直面する every day.

In a 地位，任命する 株d on Facebook group?Love What 事柄s, Jessica Medinger 明らかにする／漏らすd how she has to beg her son, Drake - 愛称d 'Stinky Joe' - to eat 'ONE green bean for supper' and how he sleeps with her because he's 脅すd to die alone in the night.

'This is him, Drake, Stinky Joe, my whole world,' she wrote. 'From the moment I 設立する out I was 妊娠している till 未来 forever, he has been my 推論する／理由 for life.?

'He is my smile, my love, my heartbeat. He is also my 涙／ほころびs, my heart ache, my frowns. He is my life.'

Heartbreaking: Jessica Medinger 株d this photo of her son, Drake, on Facebook Monday. She said she 株d the image because 'Life isn't pretty, and 癌 destroys a person'

Exhausted: Drake, who fought off 白血病 last year but was then 診断するd with testicular 癌, is 絶えず tired and must be carried if a 車椅子 isn't 利用できる

The photo isn't 平易な 見解（をとる）ing: Drake, bald, pale and sick from chemotherapy, is seen bent over the family 洗面所, 明確に in 不快, in a pair of pull-up diapers.

'The picture I'm 地位，任命するing is from this mor ning,' Jessica wrote.

She continued: 'and before you 叫び声をあげる and cry "why would she 地位，任命する a picture of him in a pull up, the わいせつ," 井戸／弁護士席 1. It doesnt show more than swimming jammers would and 2. Because life is not always 政治上 訂正する and pretty, it is real.?

'Life isn't pretty, and 癌 destroys a person.'??

The photo was 初めは 地位，任命するd on Drake's own page, Stinky Joe's #1 炭坑，オーケストラ席 乗組員 - a 肩書を与える that 連合させるs Drake's love of cars with the 愛称 his mom gave him at birth - last Wednesday.

On Monday, just five days later, he?was submitted to hospital 予定 to 厳しい dehydration and may be placed on a feeding tube, によれば a 地位，任命する on crowdfunding 場所／位置?YouCaring.

This is just the 最新の struggle for Joe, who has been fighting 癌 since he was 診断するd with 白血病 September 2012.

Since then, he has undergone spinal taps to check for 癌 独房s in his spinal fluid, 同様に as 輸血s and 外科.

But the most debilitating 影響s have been 原因（となる）d by the 現在進行中の chemotherapy, which leaves him weak, tired, aching, unable to keep 負かす／撃墜する food and water, and even 影響する／感情s his co-聖職拝命（式） and 集中.

Cruelly, he appeared to have gone into remission and was taken off chemotherapy in March last year, and was 支援する to playing サッカー in April.

But six months later he was 診断するd with testicular 癌, and 軍隊d to begin his fight over again.

活動／戦闘 man: Drake is as fun-loving as any other young boy when he's feeling better. In April 2016 he was in remission and 支援する to playing サッカー (権利). But six months later he was 診断するd with testicular 癌 and 支援する on chemotherapy

Struggles: Drake, seen here in happier days is 脅すd of dying alone, so always sleeps with his mother. She says he hopes to see his dad in Heaven if he doesn't 生き残る

Now Jessica wants to show just how 勇敢に立ち向かう her boy is.?

She took the photograph of Drake in the bathroom only after she had carried him there, she says - his chemotherapy （判決などを）下すs him to exhausted and weak he must be carried or 輸送（する）d in a 車椅子 everywhere.

The diaper he is wearing is necessary because he can't 支配（する）／統制する his bowels or bladder '75 per cent of the time,' Jessica said, in her Facebook 地位，任命する.

He often 落ちるs asleep 中央の-conversation because he's so exhausted, she 追加するd, and frequently vomits up his 医薬 - which can be as many as 44 pills in 24 hours - because he can't keep more t han a spoonful of yogurt 負かす／撃墜する.

Still going: ?Drake has had his ups and 負かす／撃墜するs. This was him one year after his first diagnosis, in 2013, getting ready to return to school

'This is 肌 and bones, because I have to beg him to eat ONE green bean for supper, or drink a cup of water throughout the day,' she wrote.

'This is having your son sleep with you at night because he is afraid of something happening and 存在 alone, and by something I mean dying.?

'This is having middle of the night conversations with a ten year old, asking if he dies will he go to heaven and will he see his dad there and be able to talk and play with him.'

She continued: 'This is him telling me, "mommy, I'm not going to make it."?

'This is him not wanting to be touched, because it 傷つけるs too much, and using morphine to get through his day...

'This is him and me, telling him that I will continue to fight for him when he can't. This is him and me, and our world.'

Drake's family are collecting money to help with his 医療の 法案s on Y ouCaring.

Powerful: This is Jessica's 十分な 地位，任命する about Drake's struggles, which she 株d with the Facebook group Love What 事柄s