Mother reveals in excruciating detail her final heartbreaking conversation with her dying four-year-old son who tells her ‘I’ll go to Heaven and play until you get there’

• Ruth Scully lost her son Nolan in February 2017 to a rare form of cancer
• Nolan told her he would wait for her in heaven and play until she got there too
• The cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma, is very aggressive and can spread quickly

A mother has revealed the heartbreaking last conversation she had with her elderly, dying son.

Ruth Scully, of Leonardtown, Maryland, lost her four-year-old son, Nolan, in February 2017 to rhabdomyosarcoma.

The cancer, which affects the soft tissues of the skeleton, is very aggressive and can spread quickly and become resistant to all forms of treatment.

Nolan only had 15 months to battle the disease, from November 2015 to February 2017, before it took his life.

In one of their last conversations together, she told her son he “didn’t have to fight anymore”, who said he would go to heaven and “play until you get there” .

Scully remembers telling her son, “It hurts to breathe, doesn’t it?” ”, who replied “yeah… yeah”.

“You’re in a lot of pain, aren’t you, baby?” she said, before adding, “Poop, this cancer thing sucks.” You don’t need to fight anymore.

His son replied: “No. But I’ll do it for you mom,’ which made Scully wonder, ‘is that what you did?? Are you fighting for mom??

Despite the circumstances, Nolan bravely told his mother, “well DUH!” ” before Ruth asks, “What’s mom’s job?” ”, to which he replied with a big smile: “to ensure my safety”.

Ruth said her heart broke when she told him, “Honey. I can’t do this here anymore. The only way I can keep you safe is in heaven.

Heartbreakingly, Nolan told him, “I’m just going to go to heaven and play until you get there!” You will come, won’t you?’, to which she replied: ‘Absolutely.’

In September 2015, Nolan had a stuffy nose, which his parents thought was a cold.

But soon his breathing became difficult. Doctors tried antibiotics, a humidifier, steam and saline spray, but nothing worked. They decided to take biopsies of his adenoid tissue, located behind the nasal cavity.

Finally, in November 2015, doctors diagnosed Nolan with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare soft tissue cancer – a tumor was compressing his airway, causing his “stuffy nose.”

Photos shared on social media show a bright and happy young boy, posing for photos with hospital staff and his family with a beaming smile.

Cancer develops in the muscles, fat, bones, or joint walls. Patients often experience drooping eyelids, headaches and nausea, difficulty urinating and having a bowel movement.

Cycles of chemotherapy and radiotherapy soon followed. Nolan lost his hair and gradually grew weaker.

The disease is an aggressive, highly malignant form of cancer, and in Nolan, it began to spread throughout his body.

Once propagated, the survival rate is between 20 and 40 percent.

Ruth wrote that she had wanted to describe Nolan’s final days for a while and that her son “was made of nothing but pure love.”

On a Facebook page she and her husband Jonathan set up called Nolan Strong, Ruth described her feelings as “an agony like no other”, in a touching tribute.

When Ruth last took Nolan to the hospital, he had been battling cancer for over a year, hadn’t eaten or drunk anything in days, and was vomiting continuously.

On February 1, the oncologist told the family that the four-year-old’s cancer had spread and large tumors were compressing his bronchi and heart just four weeks after open chest surgery.

The cancer had become resistant to all treatment options and all doctors could do now was keep Nolan comfortable as his condition deteriorated rapidly.

“When I brought Nolan to the hospital for the last time, I knew there was something else wrong, other than just a lingering case of C-DIFF. I knew it, and strangely enough, I think he did too. He had not eaten or drunk anything in days and was vomiting continuously,” she wrote.

“On February 1st, we were sitting with his ENTIRE team. When his oncologist spoke, I saw the pure pain in his eyes.

“She explained at that time that she did not think his cancer (sic) was treatable because it had become resistant to all the treatment options we had tried and that the plan would be to keep him comfortable because it was deteriorating rapidly.”

Ruth said her son slept most of the next few days and she felt anxious about signing a do-not-resuscitate order for emergency responders.

On February 4, 2017, Nolan died and the post describing his struggle has been shared more than 928,000 times.

Ruth added that her son loved his family and friends with fierce devotion and “was a warrior who died with dignity and love.”

Next to the letter is a photo of Nolan lying on the bathroom floor, showing how her son was too terrified to leave her even when she was showering.

“Now I’m the one afraid to shower,” she wrote. “With nothing but an empty shower mat now where once a beautiful, perfect baby boy waited for his mommy.”