CNN political reporter Andrew Kaczynski thanked people for reaching out to follow their baby daughter Francescadied of cancer and shared moving new images of her in her final months.
The 31-year-old journalist and his wife and Wall Street Journal bank reporter Rachel Louise EnsignHer son died at the age of 9 on Christmas Eve, after battling a rare and aggressive rhabdoid brain tumor and after a long hospital stay.
Andrew announced the tragic news on Christmas Day on social media, where he documented Francesca’s struggle and received support from friends and fans, and published an obituary that he and Rachel co-wrote for her.
“Thank you all, your messages have touched our hearts,” wrote Andrew in Twitter on Saturday, December 26th. “We are very grateful for how much money has been raised in honor of Francesca for Dana Farber to fight this terrible disease and we will spend the rest of our lives involved in finding a cure.”
He also shared a video de Francesca lying in a crib and cooing, writing: “I know that many of you did not know Beans before her diagnosis of cancer in September. She was very excited before starting treatment. And we are very lucky that she had six normal months of life. That was from the end of July. “