IWK, family, friends, community rally around three-year-old Calum MacDonald

Halifax friends, family, and community members rally to supportCalum MacDonald, 3, who has leukemia.

Kathleen Patterson and her family are living the worst nightmare imaginable.

Their son Calum MacDonald is very sick.

“Calum has Acute Myeloid Leukemia. With a gene type of monosomy seven. He has a really poor prognosis,” Patterson said.

Calum is only three years old.

He received the diagnosis for Leukemia on Oct. 11.

“My whole life, I have used the term surreal,” said Patterson. “It wasn’t until they used the word leukemia that I understood what that word meant.”