“As long as we are doing this as a family, we got this.”
This is Vinny Desautels, a 7-year-old boy who had been growing his hair out for two years to donate to children with cancer.
Ron Desautels / Via gofundme.com
While growing out his hair, he was teased relentlessly by his classmates, his family wrote on the crowd-funding page for his illness.
"He was mistaken for a girl many times," his father, Jason Desautels, told a local Fox News affiliate. "But Vinny took it like a champ and was like, 'Nah, I'm a boy.'"
"I want to help people so they don't have to go to the doctors to fight cancer," Vinny Desautles said.
So when he turned 7, he donated his 13 inches of locks to create wigs for children undergoing chemotherapy.
"Everyone got excited when mom cut the ponytails off," Vinny added. "I was happy."
But a few months after he cut his hair, the 7-year-old was diagnosed with "aggressive" cancer in his hip and eye bone, his parents said.
FOX / Via fox40.com
"On Thursday, Vinny came home from school complaining about knee pain," according to the crowd-funding page, which appears to have been written by Desautels' grandparents.
The family did not immediately respond to BuzzFeed News' request for comment, but according to the crowd-funding page, Vinny's cancer was discovered after complaining about knee pain. Not long after a large growth was identified on his Iliac bone, doctors identified a "malignant mass on [his] eye that appears to be aggressive."
"Vinny is taking all of this like a brave little turd," the family wrote. "There are many more tests ahead and they're in the hospital for an undetermined amount of time."
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