“I worry if he wasn’t here, where would I be?”
Alfie Evans’ father has said that his newborn son, Thomas, gives him a reason to wake up every day.
Tom Evans and Kate James lost their son Alfie to a rare degenerative brain disease last year. The 23-month-old passed away in April when doctors took him off life support.
Alfie’s case gained worldwide media attention due to the legal battle between his parents and Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.
Tom and Kate had wanted their son to remain on life support despite the hospital’s declaration that such measures would be “unkind and inhumane.”
Alfie passed away on 28 April 2018 five days after his breathing tube was removed.
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Tom Evans has since said that the birth of his new son has given him and Kate a reason to keep “hanging in there.”
He told the Sunday Mirror that the resemblance between baby Thomas and Alfie is “amazing.”
“We’re hanging in there, keeping sane, doing as well as we can,” he said. “I wouldn’t know where I was without baby Thomas.”
“I’ve got something to wake up to with him. I have to keep happy for Thomas’s sake. I wouldn’t want to wake up if it wasn’t for the baby.
“I don’t like to think what it would be like without Thomas. I worry if he wasn’t here, where would I be?”
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Tom and Kate welcomed their second son last year, four months after losing their first.
Both parents carry the rare gene that led to Alfie’s degenerative condition. There is a one in four chance that any other children they have will develop the same illness.
