When Viggo Widz was ten years old, he and his family received the news that he had suffered from an aggressive form of bone cancer.
Today, Viggo is 16 years old and declared healthy.
– I didn’t understand what it meant, but after a while I began to understand what was happening, Viggo tells Nyhetsmorgon.
It was in 2018 that the Widz family received the horrific news that Viggo had suffered from Ewing’s sarcoma, which is a type of bone cancer.
Viggo himself discovered that there was something wrong. He was out playing in the snow when suddenly something hit him in the chest. He told about it to his grandmother who was with him and they went home.
– When we got home, we felt a lump on the rib, says Viggo.
The family went straight to the hospital and later the news came that it was cancer.
Wondered if he would survive
For the first few weeks after the news, the family was in shock, until all the samples were analyzed and they found out what it was.
– It is clear that it was terrible to receive the news that one’s child has cancer and you wondered if he would survive, says Viggo’s mother Maria Widz.
She says that it was difficult to understand what that would mean and what would happen. The treatments started one after another and Viggo got sicker and sicker. But after the treatments started, a form of everyday life still appeared.
– You enter the everyday life that cancer completely rules over, says Maria.
Declared healthy
Five years after the end of the treatment, the Widz family received the news that Viggo has been declared healthy – a relief for the whole family after the tough time they went through.
– It’s fantastic that it worked out, says mother Maria.
– The best thing is that you get back a type of everyday life that you can participate in and control yourself, during the time you are sick you end up in the everyday life that cancer offers and then you have to adapt to it, she continues.
Viggo also thinks it’s nice to have been declared healthy.
– I don’t think much about it. It just kind of disappeared, he says.