The mother of seven-year-old Evan Leversage says her son, who is now in palliative care, gave her a bit of a scare earlier this week when he went into a days-long deep sleep.
“Yesterday he opened up his eyes and he starting requesting simple things like water and popsicles. Today he did the same thing.” Evan’s mother Nicole Wellwood told CTV News.
“We are taking it and feeling that this is a blessing and a miracle just to have this time with him.”
The terminally ill boy made international headlines when his town helped him celebrate Christmas in October because his mother feared her son, who suffers from an inoperable brain tumour, might not live to see his favourite holiday.
Since the Christmas celebration, Evan crossed the remaining items off his bucket list, including attending a Leafs game, seeing Niagara Falls, eating out at Chuck E. Cheese’s, and watching “Hotel Transylvania 2” with his best friend.
On Nov. 4, Evan entered a hospice facility, where his mother said he is resting comfortably without any pain.
Wellwood said that on a daily basis Evan asks her to read the letters that people write to him.
“Even on the two days that he was in a deep sleep… when we asked him ‘do you want us to read your mail,’ he would squeeze your hand so we continued because we know he heard what we were saying,” she added.
Evan’s family has partnered with the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada to raise money for brain tumour research through “Evan's Legacy,” a new subsidiary foundation named in his honour.
