Mom: 'We are Actively Fighting' Cancer

When you meet Quinn Gibson, his playfulness belies his very serious health condition. 

He's 5. He plays. He runs. He tosses sticks down sewers. And, he has cancer -- neuroblastoma. 

Quinn was diagnosed November 10, six days after his baby brother Dylan was born. The baby was born a month early, and then admitted to the the neonatal intensive care unit.

So, Quinn's parents -- Mark and Dmetria Gibson -- said they didn't have time to be angry and confused. They had to deal with it head on.

"We didn't have a choice," said Dmetria Gibson, Quinn's mother.

By the 17th of November, Quinn was walking into his first chemotherapy appointment.

More than five months later, Quinn is still in the thick of treatments.

Religious faith is helping the family to pull through. And, it's something that parents of children with cancer must have, the Gibsons said. 

"If you don't have faith, you need to find it or get involved with a faith-based group because if you didn't know God before now, you definately need to know him now," Dmetria Gibson said.

The family is "actively fighting" for Quinn's recovery.

"To him, it sucks," Gibson said, but the family tries to focus on fun things that everyone will do once Quinn's cancer is in remission.

"That's what we think about when we are in a bad place," Gibson said.

About Nueroblastoma:

Neuroblastoma is a cancer that develops from immature nerve cells found in several areas of the body, and it most affects children 5 years old and younger, according to the Mayo Clinic.

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