Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  He kotiro 17-tau-tau i akina kia whai i te chemotherapy i whakaatu i te Mane i te whakarongo o te tatau kati i reira ia me tona whaea e rapu ana i tana tuku mai i te tiaki a te kawanatanga. I whakaatu a Cassandra Fortin mā te whakawhitiwhiti kōrero i te marae tamariki, e ai ki ngā roia. I rongo tata nei te taiohi kei te whakaheke te mate pukupuku o tana mate pukupuku, ā, kua kore ia e whawhai ki te maimoatanga. Engari kei te tono rāua ko tōna whaea kia mutu tana tiaki e te Tari Tamariki me ngā Whanau (DCF) kia taea ai e ia te hoki ki te kāinga ināianei, kaua e tatari kia oti ra ano te rongoā matū i te marama e whai ake nei. I whakahaua a Cassandra Fortin e te Kooti Nui o Connecticut kia whai i te maimoatanga mate pukupuku. E ai ki a Ms. Fortin, maui, i ngana te hōhipera ki te ārai i tōna whaea, a Jackie, matau, kia haere ki tōna rūma. Ko Mrs Fortin, i whakaahuatia, i kii ko ia te mea i muri i te whakatau a tana tama ki te kore e whai i te maimoatanga mate pukupuku. I kii a Michael Taylor, he roia mo te whaea o te taiohi, a Jackie Fortin, mena kaore te kaiwhakawa e whakakore i te ota tiaki mo te wa poto, ka hiahia ratou kia taea e te taiohi te toro atu ki tona whaea i te hohipera. I kii a Ms Fortinh kua aukatihia e te DCF kia kore ia e whakapiri atu ki tona whaea. 'Kei te hiahia mātou ki te whakamutu i te mea katoa,' ka mea a Taylor, e ai ki The Hartford Courant, i te wā o te okiokinga i te whakarongo, 'engari ki te kore e taea, e hiahia ana mātou ki te mahi i te nui o ā mātou mahi mō ia. E hiahia ana ia kia noho ki tona whaea.' Kei te noho tonu a Ms. Fortin ki te Connecticut Children's Medical Center i Hartford. Ka taea e ia te whakatau i āna ake whakataunga hauora ina 18 ōna tau i te marama o Hepetema. I muri i te kitenga o Ms Fortin i te mate lymphoma Hodgkin mōrearea nui i te marama o Hepetema, ka ngaro ia rāua ko tōna whaea i ētahi wā, nā reira i whakamōhio ai ngā tākuta ki te DCF, e ai ki ngā tuhinga a te kōti. Ko te lymphoma Hodgkins (ngā pūtau i whakaahuatia) he mate o ngā pūtau toto ma. Ko te Hodgkin's Lymphoma he mate pukupuku o ngā pūtau toto ma e kiia nei ko ngā lymphocytes B e rere ana huri noa i te pūnaha lymphatic, arā, he whatunga o ngā ipu me ngā pūtau e horahia ana puta noa i te tinana. Ko te pūnaha lymphatic he wāhanga o tō pūnaha ārai mate. Ko te wai mārama e kiia nei ko ngā rerenga lymph...
I hiahia a Cassandra Fortin, 17, ki te whakakore i te maimoatanga matū mō tōna mate pukupuku. I whakatauhia e te Kooti Nui o Connecticut me whai maimoatanga a Ms Fortin. I amuamu te taiohi i 'kua tukinotia ia ano he kararehe' I kii ia kaore te hohipera i whakaae kia haere atu tana whaea ki a ia.