When two-year-old Bennett Overshaw was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2022, his parents asked their son’s oncologist the likelihood his identical twin brother Weston would also develop the potentially deadly cancer. They were told it was 20 per cent.
Four months later, their worst fears were realized when Weston was also diagnosed.
“Once we got Bennett’s diagnosis, we were four months into Weston’s treatment and I knew how intense it was going to be – and I truthfully did not even know how I was going to be able to logistically do it,” said Alisha Overshaw, the boys’ mom. “My husband still had to be working full time to keep us financially afloat, so it was solely me for those first few months.”
The dual diagnoses required near-daily trips from their home in Langley to BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver for treatment.
“It’s hard to get through with one …