Otto Phelps tried really hard to sit still for the photographer, but after a few hundred frames, he could no longer resist the temptation of playing on the playground. The 7-year-old burst of firecracker energy on a scorching summer evening, excited about winning a medal in his baseball tournament last week.
Looking at him now, Otto’s mother, Erica Phelps, said you would never know how sick he was just a few months ago.
In January 2017, Otto was diagnosed with pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a rare form of cancer that put him in the hospital for two-months straight. For a week, he was completely paralyzed, his mother unsure if he would ever walk again. Though he doesn’t remember much, Otto remembers how hard it was to learn how to walk again.
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