Cancer-Stricken Teen's Last Wish

A teenager battling cancer, with just days to live, has fulfilled his last wish by taking his girlfriend to his school prom.

Jak Trueman was applauded by tearful classmates at the event, organised at the last minute, after doctors told him he was dying.

More than 200 teachers and pupils from West Calder High, West Lothian, Scotland, watched the 15-year-old keep his promise to take girlfriend Hannah Boyd, 14, to the prom.

The young couple have been going out for almost two years and it was the youngster's dying wish to accompany her to their last school event together.

The teenager had to receive much-needed pain relief to make the prom after he deteriorated on Thursday and his family feared he wouldn't survive the night.

His mother Alison revealed they were living 'minute by minute, hour by hour' desperate for him to improve.

Jak has terminal T-Cell Lymphoma, which was diagnosed in August last year.

He was in line to take more treatment until scans showed early last week the cancer had spread throughout his body.

'The prom was about my boy and Hannah,' she said.

'He managed to make the evening for 10 minutes through wonderful courage and determination.'

She added: 'Jak and Hannah are exceptionally close and I think it is absolutely magical that the school brought the prom forward.'

'It is overwhelming what the school has arranged.'


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