On Wednesday, March 28, 2012, the family was told that his son Isaac, who was four years old at the time, had a malignant form of kidney cancer.
- One morning my husband tickled our son Isaac on his stomach and felt something that should not be there, he felt a lump on his stomach.
The time immediately after the message was chaotic and critical, it took over four weeks after Isaac was hospitalized before the family could leave the hospital for the first time. Then followed a tough battle with surgery and intensive radiation therapy with cell toxins.
In November 2012, six months after the surgery where the doctors removed the tumor from the stomach, Isaac was scanned and no traces of the cancer were found, the family could breathe and the doctors looked brightly at Isaac's future.
But just a few weeks after Isaac's treatment was completed, at the end of May 2013, he was allowed to go in again after a stubborn blood poisoning examination.
The joy of finally being able to resume her old life changed to horror when the doctors discovered that the cancer had returned, this time with the message that Isaac would not recover.
- We were sent home with an incredibly sick child, to live out his last time. It wasn't like we thought it would be, we would go home to continue living, and then it wasn't, says Camilla.
She continues:
- And Isaac, he lived his utmost all this time, he knew he was going to die, but he was so full of confidence for the future and talked about what he would do when he grew up, that he would become a police officer, that he would go to school with big sister Emilia and he couldn't wait to learn to read, write and count.
When the doctors sent Isaac and his family home, it was believed that he had only days left to live, that it was uncertain if he would be able to turn 6 years old. But against all odds, Isaac defied the doctor's message and endured for almost two and a half months.
- He never gave up, he wanted to live. It is so incredibly difficult to be home with your child without being able to do anything while getting worse and worse, to see the cancer take over.
On Tuesday, September 10, 2013, Isaac's fight ended, he fell asleep at home with mom and dad on each side.
To live every moment- Life has ended, for us, too. You never get the same after that, we miss him every day, every moment. But time makes you learn to live with the grief and see the beautiful and beautiful that we had with our child and see what a fine person he was, says Camilla.
She continues:
- What he gave us was the incredible joy, to live in the moment, to take life and shake it, it was Isaac in a nutshell, he lived every moment he could and that's what we bring to life after Isaac, this feeling that we have to live and take advantage of every moment, take advantage of our time together and make the best of it.