Terminally ill boy becomes palaeontologist for a day
Scientists made this little boy’s dream come true.
Six-year-old Riley Voss from Raleigh was invited by scientists at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science to study the dinosaurs at the museum.
Riley’s mom Ashley Voss, told insideEedition.com that Riley was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma in November 2016, which is a fatal type of brain cancer that usually affects young children.
She said that children only survive nine months after diagnosis and that Riley has been undergoing radiation, which has helped shrink the tumour, buying her son some time.
Instead of focusing on his next radiation appointment, the family decided to team up with the scientists at the local museum to make little Riley’s dream of being a palaeontologist a reality.
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