Perry County Family Overcomes Cancer

By: Beth Alexander | WHLT
Published: December 29, 2011

"We got to hand out bags and all kinds of stuff to people in the audience and outside."

     Christian Magee visited New York City earlier this year for the first time.
     But the 10 year old is glad to be back in his Beaumont, Mississippi home.

"I like to play with my cousins outside."

     Christian loves being outside -

"I like to throw the football."

     - because he spent half of the past year undergoing chemotherapy.

"We noticed that he was swollen on the right side of his abdomen."

     Christian's mother, Laverne Magee, says after surgery and chemo, Christian is doing fine.

"They say I'm looking good and I feel fine and my hair's growing back."

     But this isn't the first time the Magee family has dealt with cancer.
     Christian's 5 year old sister Reed was diagnosed in 2010.

"She had DIPG."

     DIPG is a cancer in the brainstem.

"They can't cure it. So she died. When she was 5."

"After you have one child, especially you lose a child to something like cancer, you think, 'oh well, I'm home free. This is never going to happen to me again.'"

     This Christmas was the Magee's first without Reed, but the family says it was a happy time.
     Reed even had her own Christmas tree.

"You just take every day and live it to the fullest and love the people around you and you don't take it for granted."

Perry County Family Overcomes Cancer

Perry County Family Overcomes Cancer (Added: December 29, 2011)

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