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Brave Texas boy, 8, with terminal cancer all smiles during whirlwind NYC trip where he’ll be sworn in as NYPD detective
New York Post ^ | Feb. 27, 2024 | Reuven Fenton and Olivia Land

Posted on 03/02/2024 9:10:49 PM PST by nickcarraway

Little Julian Galloway is fighting cancer — just like his heroes fight crime.

The cop-obsessed terminally-ill 8-year-old boy has been battling the brutal disease for more than half of his life, with a recent scan revealing new tumors, and that the existing ones on his brain were growing.

But Julian, of Texas, was granted brief respite Tuesday — and given rare reasons to smile — as he launched into a whirlwind tour of the Big Apple organized by a non-profit police foundation. “We’ve been at it [for] four-and-a-half years battling cancer. It’s been absolute hell, up and down, beating it, getting it again, from the highest highs to the lowest lows,” his dad Lee Galloway told The Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Travel
KEYWORDS: nyc; nypd; police
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1 posted on 03/02/2024 9:10:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
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God bless him, heart shredding story.


2 posted on 03/02/2024 9:25:38 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Should it be publicized? Just asking.

I don’t enjoy being played because it’s always the left.


3 posted on 03/02/2024 9:33:30 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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If he hasn’t been to MD Anderson in Houston, he needs to go.

Not sayinghis outcome would be different, but MDA has clinical not available anywhere else.


4 posted on 03/02/2024 9:42:58 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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This is just so heart rending to read. Brave little boy, and so good of the NYPD (what’s left of it) to fulfill his dream.


5 posted on 03/02/2024 9:52:40 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: nickcarraway

Ivermectin and fenbendazole. Drop all refined sugar.


6 posted on 03/02/2024 9:56:29 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway

I really hope Julian lives to see his next birthday.


7 posted on 03/02/2024 10:10:51 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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My friend of 40 years.. I just heard at 7:30 this morning that his multiple myeloma is back.
In his neck and spine.

This is devastating.
I pray both for this child and my bud..


8 posted on 03/02/2024 10:35:50 PM PST by mowowie
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I hope for the best for your friend.


9 posted on 03/02/2024 11:07:30 PM PST by nickcarraway
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If he hasn’t been to MD Anderson in Houston, he needs to go.

Not sayinghis outcome would be different, but MDA has clinical not available anywhere else.


10 posted on 03/02/2024 11:12:07 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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I pray both for this child and my bud.

I’m sorry. Sending up prayers for your friend and for this precious 8-year-old.

11 posted on 03/02/2024 11:12:13 PM PST by Allegra (Does this tagline make my brain look smaller? 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 CCCP 2.0…Derp, Derp…)
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(MD Anderson in Houston)

They tried to save my mother.

It didn’t work, sadly.

Still, glad they’re trying.


12 posted on 03/02/2024 11:53:46 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Yes

🛐🙏✝️


13 posted on 03/02/2024 11:55:02 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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How long ago was that; and what type of cancer?


14 posted on 03/03/2024 5:09:15 AM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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15 posted on 03/03/2024 5:16:31 AM PST by linMcHlp
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Pray they can cure these poor kids. Nice if the NYPD.


16 posted on 03/03/2024 5:18:54 AM PST by ZULU (BYE BYE RONA ROMNEY MCDANIELS!!!)
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PM


17 posted on 03/03/2024 5:31:34 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway

Tears. So sweet.


18 posted on 03/03/2024 5:34:18 AM PST by dforest
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Prayers to this brave little boy. That said, he should arrest AG James for election interference!


19 posted on 03/03/2024 6:44:09 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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We in the neighborhood had a kid like this back in the mid sixties. “Little Joey”. Confined generally to the house and often to a wheelchair he was a lively spirit and a great little scholar. But he wanted to get out of that chair and go outside and play so badly that it was obvious to even ignorant self centered eight year old me. No go though….

Our parents often held little Joey up to us as the paragon of virtue they wanted us to be. At his funeral in our little church yard attended by the whole class we said good by to Joe, took one long last look at his sky blue coffin gleaming in the sun and went on with our lives.

When I was twenty two having occasion to be in there I stopped by his grave and thought the usual thoughts; where would he be now. Who would he have become, just clearing his four year degree (a high likelihood for paragons of virtue and good little boys). I doubted he’d be clowning his way thru the post high school yeas as I seemed to be doing. I looked in my mental rear view mirror at that coffin and it seemed so far back there now…

Somewere in my thirties again I stopped by his grave. He’d be married now with kids. Who would have been his wife? Where would they be living (in all likelihood within a mile of that very spot) Would his kids be little paragons of virtue too? One of them would be about eight years old now. Shook my head., said a prayer and wondered at how far far back in the rear view that patch of blue now was.

Well when I was about 63 I again found myself in the little church yard and again I stopped by the grave. I looked at the date of death, October 27, 1967. 1967!!! My habit had been to think the usual sad nostalgic thoughts but my mind was blank. They didn’t come. The sixty year old is not the twenty year old. The sixty year old has his own coffin looming just ahead of him, in the FRONT view. The sixty year old facing reality for the first time standing before that grave realizes that Joey was NEVER in the rear view mirror at all. That was just a box full of his dust. Joey had gone AHEAD of us and has been WAITING for us all this time. And so it goes with this little Texas guy. We view it as a loss and it breaks our hearts but the truth is he goes AHEAD and will be waiting.

And if we’re good little paragons of virtue we may yet see him again.


20 posted on 03/03/2024 7:35:10 AM PST by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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