The Strength of a Mother's Love Despite a Duchenne Diagnosis for Her Son

The strongest woman that I have ever had the pleasure to call my best friend is still progressing forward despite another mountain she has to climb. Halee Nelson is strong because she is all that her six children have left in this world.

The most recent mountain is the diagnosis of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in her only son, Tobias.

Halee lives in Darwin, Australia and due to the diagnosis of her other children, her eldest with level three autism, her second born who is blind because of Retinoblastoma (eye cancer) and her third born has ADHD and ODD, Halee is unable to work full time in a standard job and only as a Carer capacity for her children. This latest diagnosis is a longer uphill battle that this family must go through.

This beautiful, wonderfully strong woman has recently lost the love of her life and the father of some off her children, including Tobias, because of cancer. So, she had to witness cancer wreak havoc and not only take the eyes of one of her children but take her King, Gary, and now she must watch their only son’s muscle mass become progressively weaker. This will mean that she will need a special vehicle that will be able to handle the number of children she has but also the progress of a wheelchair when the time comes for it in the future.

This vehicle is not cheap, so the family has opened a Go Fund Me account with the help of the kindness of strangers to achieve this so surely needed vehicle. If you can spare even just $1 that is $1 closer to achieving the goal.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/our-familys-deshuns-battle

Tobias is a bright, happy child despite everything that has been thrown at him in his short life already.