A Texas restaurant brought a smile on the face of a 3-year-old girl with leukaemia.
J. Wilson’s restaurant in Texas opened their doors early to serve Adelaide Stanley her favorite meal.
Adelaide was diagnosed with leukemia which is rare cancer that begins in the bone marrow and affects blood cells, platelets and white blood cells, according to the American Cancer Society. Her parents explained to Good Morning America that the disease and her chemotherapy treatment has dramatically affected Adelaide’s immune system.
”A simple common cold would put her into the hospital,” Nguyen said of Adelaide, who also has two sisters, Zoë, 11, and Alice, 1. ”As a parent with a kid who has leukemia, I try to keep her in a bubble.”
”We went from hugging everyone to being a germaphobe, so we don’t bring anything home to her,” she added to CNN. ”We stopped doing what we do as a family.”
Adelaide cannot be exposed to many germs. She also needs to steer clear of crowded places like restaurants, Nguyen said. The girl requested her parents to have a meal at J. Wilson’s and they reminded her that they would have to wait until she is better.
“That was so hard,” Nguyen told Fox News of the moment. “He said, ‘Baby, when you’re not sick anymore, when you get better, we can go eat there.’ ”
Nguyen later told the incident to her friend and the friend reached out to the restaurant’s owner, John Wilson.
“They used to come to brunch here all the time before she was diagnosed with leukemia,” Wilson told “GMA” of Adelaide and her family. “They had been in confinement pretty much since July.”
Wilson said that on January 26, he and his staff opened their doors at 8:45 a.m. an hour and 15 minutes early so Adelaide could have her favorite dish, scrambled eggs, bacon and homemade biscuits.
“Seeing her smile, just knowing we could give her a little sense of normalcy was great,” Wilson told GMA. “It’s something we all felt fulfilment from.”
Adelaide enjoyed brunch that day with her mom, dad and sisters Zoe and Alice. The restaurant was decorated in Adelaide’s favorite color, pink. Not only this but J. Wilson’s even took care of the bill.
“I was ready to pay for the bill, but it was already taken care of,” Nguyen recalled to CNN. “I can’t explain how much this means to me, her dad and her sister.”
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