This episode focuses on pediatric oncology and that is why Pauw has settled down with his talk show table in the Princess Máxima Center. Here he not only speaks to doctors, but also children with cancer and parents. One of those children is 11-year-old Thomas, who is present with his father. The boy has a benign tumor and has been in the Princess Máxima Center since November. “I’m doing well,” he says. “But it is difficult to remember things. For example, I spent two days in the Intensive Care Unit and I cannot remember anything about it. Sometimes I think I am home while I am in the hospital. That is very weird.”
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Thomas has now undergone surgery and the tumor has been removed. Although Thomas is currently doing very well, he was very scared in the first weeks. “I was very scared in the first weeks and especially at night. Then I also got sleeping pills, because I was shaking a lot, because I found it very exciting. I found that very difficult”, says Thomas with emotion. “Especially the first week, after the first operation, they took the pressure off his head. That was really necessary and then we lived in uncertainty for a week. We knew that there was a tumor and that it was in a bad place. caused a lot of uncertainty, especially with Thomas “, his father adds. “He was afraid of dying.”
Viewers are moved and call this broadcast a must-see. Viewers say on Twitter that they are looking with tears in their eyes and Thomas gets the necessary admiration.
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The broadcast about pediatric oncology is here back to view.
Nicolette van Dam and Bas Smit have also been committed to the Princess Máxima Center for quite some time. The couple comes up with special fundraisers, like the one below.
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