Little Chase Grosser’s fight to beat cancer

Meet little Chase Grosser. He may be fighting leukaemia but he still finds the strength to flirt with all the Women’s and Children’s Hospital cancer nurses.

Two-year-old Chase Grosser is on his way to becoming a superhero.

Diagnosed with leukaemia only seven weeks ago, Chase’s parents Jade and Jamie Grosser have told him with each treatment and procedure he is receiving powers.

“He goes to hospital every week to get his superpowers put in,” Ms Grosser said.

“He’s excited … every time they check his temperature or check his blood pressure we say, ‘all right now they’re just building up your muscles’.”

Superpowers are not the only thing Chase may take away from his time at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital – the mini Spider-Man may find his own Mary Jane Watson.

“He’s a little flirt,” his 31-year-old mum said.

“He loves the nurses, he even has nicknames for them.”

For Ms Grosser, who runs her own hairdressing salon, she is just glad hospital isn’t a scary place for Chase.

Chase Grosser was diagnosed with Leukemia and now has nine months of treatment ahead of him. His mum Jade, dad Jamie and sister Poppy tell him when he goes, every Tuesday, into hospital for chemotherapy, he is actually receiving his "superpowers". Picture: Brett Hartwig

In June this year Chase was suffering with what his parents and doctors thought was a cold – tonsillitis at worst.

But when the two-year-old continued to feel worst, the Seaford Rise family’s GP told Ms Grosser she believed Chase may be suffering with a “blood condition” and to bring him straight to the hospital.

“The word cancer was not even in my head,” she said.

Mr and Ms Grosser took Chase to the Flinders Medical Centre and received the news no parents want to hear.

“The female doctor who told us was tearing up and just saying ‘I am so sorry it looks like blood cancer’.

“My husband and I just look at each other … no way, it can’t be, it can’t be cancer.

“That was the worst day of our life. We both just fell to the ground and screamed and cried and it was horrible.”

Ms Grosser said her first thought was whether her baby would survive.

“He’s only two years old, he hasn’t lived his life,” she said.

“This was just so unfair – why him? Why my baby? Why my boy? What did we do to deserve this?”

The next day on June 13 Chase began his treatment.

An oncologist at the Women’s and Children’s spoke to Ms Grosser and gave her hope.

“He’s got a 90 to 95 per cent success rate, he’s got a very common leukaemia, very treatable, so that’s obviously made us feel a little bit better about the situation,” Ms Grosser said.

Chase is set to have eight to nine months of treatment before he becomes a fully fledged superhero.

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