Kate Langbroek gives an update on her son Lewis’ battle with leukaemia

TV and radio presenter Kate Langbroek has given an replace on her son Lewis’ most cancers battle.

Lewis, 18, was recognized with leukaemia when he was simply six years outdated and nonetheless has common check-ups on the Royal Youngsters’s Hospital in Melbourne after present process years of remedy.

Talking on The 3pm Decide-Up on Thursday, Kate, 56, recounted a dialog she had final 12 months with a nurse who at one stage throughout Lewis’ remedy was apprehensive he ‘won’t make it’.

TV and radio presenter Kate Langbroek has given an replace on her son Lewis’ most cancers battle 

The nurse approached Kate and Lewis within the hospital café, having recognised {the teenager} from a earlier go to to the hospital when he was ‘actually sick’.  

The KIIS FM host recalled the lady saying: ‘I taken care of you once you had been little and also you had been actually sick. We by no means wished to let you know this on the time, however we had been so apprehensive about you. We apprehensive you won’t make it.’

Kate continued: ‘[The nurse] had tears in her eyes. I had tears in my eyes. And Lewis is standing there similar to an enormous doofus.’ 

Talking on The 3pm Decide-Up on Thursday, Kate, 56, recounted a dialog she had final 12 months with a nurse who at one stage throughout Lewis’ remedy was apprehensive he ‘won’t make it’. (Kate and son Lewis are seen right here together with her husband Peter Allen Lewis)

Kate additionally mentioned on The 3pm Decide-Up that Lewis obtained some excellent news from his docs throughout his newest check-up on Monday.

She revealed the physician had instructed them: ‘That is the final time we’ll be seeing you at this hospital, as a result of Lewis is transitioning to an grownup hospital.’

She continued: ‘I assumed, “Oh my goodness, there were so many times where we thought this day may not come.”

‘You are confronted with what the course of his sickness appeared like, and there have been occasions once we thought, “I don’t see how we can make it through this.”‘

The nurse approached Kate and Lewis within the hospital café, having recognised {the teenager} from a earlier go to to the hospital when he was ‘actually sick’ 

She concluded: ‘And there we had been – being dismissed by the gorgeous docs and being despatched on our manner!’

Kate spoke about her son’s most cancers battle on The Undertaking final 12 months throughout a dialogue a few three-year-old boy from Melbourne who had stage 4 neuroblastoma. 

Co-host Carrie Bickmore reached for Kate’s hand throughout the change, each ladies clinging to at least one one other and preventing again tears.

The KIIS FM host recalled the nurse saying, ‘I taken care of you once you had been little and also you had been actually sick. We by no means wished to let you know this on the time, however we had been so apprehensive about you’

Kate spoke about her son’s most cancers battle on The Undertaking final 12 months throughout a dialogue a few three-year-old boy from Melbourne who had stage 4 neuroblastoma. (Left: Carrie Bickmore) 

‘Childhood cancers are significantly troublesome. My son was recognized with [leukaemia] – you keep in mind, Carrie – and I keep in mind once we had been first in hospital, and I noticed the opposite little bald youngsters, all I noticed was the baldness,’ Kate mentioned.

‘After which after we had frolicked there and my very own son was bald, I learnt to see the kid and when you see the kid, you’ll do something to assist the kid. It’s extremely highly effective.’ 

Lewis had leukaemia for 3 and a half years earlier than making a full restoration in 2013. He now goes for annual check-ups.  

Lewis had leukaemia for 3 and a half years earlier than making a full restoration in 2013. He now goes for annual check-ups