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A mother who has lost three children to terminal illnesses has opened up on the devastating decision to tell her 10-year-old son he was recovering when in reality he was going home to die.
Gheuwan Arja, 41, from the Sydney suburb of Greenacre, watched on in agony as her son Omar smiled with delight as he rang a bell in hospital to signal he had finished his cancer treatment.
The mother-of-five revealed she told the 'white lie' to spare her son the pain of knowing he only had weeks to live after six months of gruelling chemotherapy and 18 surgeries following a diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.
The mother-of-five said she could not bring herself to tell her 10-year-old that he was going to die
The aggressive cancer attacks the lymph nodes, part of the body's immune system.
Mrs Arja said it was 'one of the worst days of her life lying to him' in a TikTok video.
'How do you tell your child that he is going home to spend his last days with his family?', she captioned the video.
Heartbreaking footage shows the boy sitting in a wheelchair and ringing the bell at the hospital.
Medical staff clap off-camera while Mrs Arja joins in why standing behind her son.
She is seen wiping a tear away from her eye while her son smiles from his wheelchair.
Omar, 10, died in January 2022.
She never told her son he was fighting
