Joel (Daily Life and Environment 2013, by Peter Gerber) - Swiss Press Award

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Peter Gerber

Joel has acute lymphocytic leukemia. In the early summer of 2011, he was no longer able to walk and kept collapsing. And suddenly, the fun-loving Joel, "who always had nonsense in his head," as his mother quietly recounts, had no energy left. "The doctors said if we didn't treat him, he'd be dead in four weeks."