“I’m halfway there”: the story of Lauti, the boy who is battling cancer and making bracelets to get through chemotherapy

The 11-year-old boy was diagnosed in early March with a type of cancer in the bones and soft tissues.

“I started making bracelets during chemo because I was so bored.” Lautaro Demarco tells him Infobae how he copes with an extreme situation, but he does it with a smile that spreads joy, that of a child’s soul. He is only 11 years old but has enough energy and maturity to face a problem. In March, he was diagnosed with a sarcoma de Ewingjust when her mother was finishing the treatment with which she overcame a breast cancerFrom that moment on, his routine changed considerably. But this did not prevent him from continuing his life or abandoning his passions.

“When I had the chemotherapies“I didn’t know what to do. I would look at my phone all the time or sleep to pass the time. But since I started doing this, I have a better time and I forget about everything, even that I have to undergo treatment,” says the boy about the way he chose to go through the sessions, after he was told that he had a type of cancer in his bones and soft tissues.

During chemotherapy sessions, she makes bracelets for people who order them through social media.

And so, without expecting it, in the German Hospitalwhere he is served, a new venture was born that is all the rage on his Instagram account @lautipulseras“One day I was preparing an order and some doctors came to examine me. They found me making bracelets and asked for my Instagram. At that time, I had very few followers and they were all family members. Little by little, more orders started coming in, even from people I didn’t know. I never thought it would happen,” she says about the beginning of her project that is growing every day.

“I started making bracelets during chemo because I was really bored,” says Lautaro.

Suddenly, he began to produce bracelets in greater quantities, in various shapes and all colors. Even, as an undisputed fan of Emilia Mernesis preparing a bracelet that she hopes to give to the artist one day. “I would explode with emotion”he confesses about the idea.

“I would explode with emotion,” Lautaro confesses about his desire to be able to show his idol, Emilia Mernes, his creations

This is how every hospitalization goes. Lautaro He has already managed to complete half of the treatment: He has had seven sessions of chemotherapy and has seven more to go. Recently, he learned that he also had to undergo radiation therapy. And although he admits that at first it caused him “distress”, this has not made him give up. On the contrary.

It only takes a few seconds to notice that he is a happy and easy-going child. His energy is truly admirable. And his parents, Florencia and Alejandro, know this very well.He is handling the process in an incredible way“, they say proudly.

Lautaro lives in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Monserrat with his parents, Florencia and Alejandro, and his brother Alejo, 7 years old.

“There are times when he is in a better mood, but he is struggling. He is admitted every 15 days: he has a short cycle, which he handles better, and a long cycle. He gets through these periods as best he can and then tries to get back on his feet. There are also relapses. When he has a fever of 37.5, he has to go back to the hospital and we know that he will be admitted for two or three more days because they have to do cultures and that takes time,” explains his mother.

And he continues: “This news makes him a little sad because he knows that he will be in hospital for three more days. But he is handling it really well for his age, the truth is that he is quite a gentleman. He never complains.” On this point, his father adds: “Sometimes his time at home seems too short and he spends several days in the hospital.”

Lautaro undergoes treatment at the German Hospital

“Now the chemo sessions are shorter and he has a lot of energy. One Tuesday we left the session and he told me: ‘Do I make time for school?’. That day, she couldn’t go because it was very cold, but she was able to go on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday, she played volleyball. She’s more energetic,” Florencia said.

It was she who, unintentionally, ended up preparing Lautaro for what was to come. Months before, Florence was diagnosed with breast cancer. “Without being able to finish the treatment, we found out what was happening to Lauti. So, in parallel, Mother and son underwent similar treatment”, explains Alejandro. And he continues: “She did X-rays and he did chemotherapy”.

On his Instagram account @lautipulseras, the 11-year-old boy shares his bracelets and takes orders from people

“He started with a headache “In February, he started vomiting. He was only a few weeks away from going back to school and the situation persisted. We took him to the hospital and they did neurological tests, but they didn’t see anything. They sent him to the gastroenterologist and he was still the same. We asked for a CT scan again because it was no longer normal. That’s where it all started. Luckily, they acted super fast and the team was incredible,” the parents recall with a detailed memory.

“It happened to us simultaneously, sometimes we say that it was like that for a reason. When they gave us the diagnosis, they first removed Lauti’s tumor and they had to tell us if it was good or bad. We were convinced that everything was going to be fine. But when they gave us the bad news, our faces changed completely. And When we left the office, we were different people. Lauti realized. ‘Mom, what happened?’, she asked me. Then we had to explain to her that the ‘little ball’ they had taken out of her at the end was bad,” Florencia explains, still shaken.

Florencia, her mother, was diagnosed with breast cancer months before

“What am I going to have to do, chemo like you?”, the little boy asked his mother. “He was one step ahead of everything. I think that solved a lot of things for him. When he had to cut his hair, he said to me: ‘Mommy, I’m going to cut my hair before “because I don’t want to be left with gaps like you,” he says.

And she adds, recalling the exact dates: “I finished the last chemo on March 4. I already had the appointments to start with X-rays, but that was delayed. On March 11, he was diagnosed with sarcoma. We brought Lauti to the hospital, he was admitted and on the 15th he was already in surgery. It all happened very quickly.”

Lautaro and his mother went through the process almost at the same time

“He lived my process very closelythen he was able to know that the chemo was going on and that nothing was happening, that everything was fine, that I was still active throughout the treatment, that my hair was growing back. We want to believe that it happened so that he could gain strength and be able to handle it in the best way possible,” she emphasizes. A son learns everything from his mother, even what he least expects.

Now, Lauti knows that she will have to go through the same thing as her mother. “At first, I was a little worried,” she confessed to her Instagram followers when the doctors told her that she had to continue with X-rays. However, she faces this second part of the treatment with a lot of energy, as always.

The boy is a fan of Emilia Mernes and dreams of giving her one of her bracelets

She also continues to enjoy herself, dancing and singing – Emilia’s songs, of course – just the way she likes, in her home in Montserratwhere he lives with his parents and his 7-year-old brother Alejo.

“I’m already halfway there”Lauti often recalls with great pride. To those around him, as well as to the people who follow him on social media, he is “a very brave warrior.” And that is abundantly clear.