The gripping story of Orlin Loosveldt miserable the past few weeks a lot of the Flemish people. The parents of the 10-year-old boy testified middle of last month in this newspaper how during christmas the terrible message that their son is still up to six months to live. “We want to make that time to enjoy and all the dreams of Orlin deliver,” says his mom when.
We followed earlier how the family of Orlin as much as possible of his wishes tried to fulfill it:
A promise that they, thanks to the massive help of the HLN-readers could deliver. So if the little boy one day walking with the hondenbrigade of the police of Ostend, with the dolphins playing in the dolphinarium, he drove around in a Tesla of his Bruges school principal, there came a visit to a papegaaienopvang and he could play with a litter hondenpuppy. His ultimate dream “to fly, but really, not in a plane”- he made barely two weeks ago, where, thanks to a couple from Limburg that the story in the newspaper had read. During the indoor skydiving experienced the boy the time of his life.
Bad weekFor the parents, family and friends comes the death hard. Orlin was four years old when he for the first time leukemia was. His chance of cure was 95% and the heavy chemo hit. But Orlin relapsed. For the first time, a year and a half later. And then again, last summer. “The leukemia continues to recur. The doctors have even excused. They are a riddle,” said his parents last month. Even a stem cell transplant, for which just a suitable donor was found, could not be more income.