One wouldn’t be able to notice due to his happy-go-lucky nature, but the brave little boy and his young family have had a rough start to 2019.

It all started with the discovery of a lump on George’s belly button. 

Mum Katie Davidson said they found the lump, which they believed to be a hernia, just after New Year’s Day.

“We took him to the doctor in Ballarat. He had an ultrasound done and that’s when they found a tumour,” she said.

The family then found themselves on a rollercoaster they did not want to be on.

“Within two days we were at the Royal Children’s Hospital getting tests done,” Ms Davidson said. 

“The following week we got more tests done. (The doctors) told us that they thought it might have been Neuroblastoma and the further tests confirmed it, and that the cancer had spread.”

After discovering the tennis ball sized tumour in baby George’s stomach, doctors diagnosed him with stage four Neuroblastoma –  a rare childhood cancer – which has spread to his arm and leg.

Baby George, with his chubby little cheeks, wears an infectious grin.

“He is so happy – you wouldn’t know he was sick,” his dad George said.

Baby George began his first round of chemotherapy last Thursday. 

The news devastated his family, with his parents yet to figure out the logistics as to how they will go about his estimated 18 months of treatment in Melbourne.

George’s treatment includes four-to-seven-day rounds of chemotherapy followed by a two-week break.

After a number of these cycles, which will be determined by how his tiny body responds to the treatment, George will undergo surgery to remove the tumour, followed by radiation and immunology.

Neuroblasoma is almost exclusively a childhood cancer found in children under the age of five.

It is rare, with only about 40 children diagnosed with it in Australia each year.

“One of the symptoms is that you have a swollen stomach but we never thought anything of it because he has always been a chubby little baby,” Ms Davidson said.

“He is so happy now but the chemo is going to take that, and he is going to get sick.”

The Creswick couple also have two young daughters – three-year-old Ava and five-year-old Lily – with Lily preparing for her first day of school in February.

The Davidsons aren’t sure what the next couple of months are going to look like for them, but are extremely grateful for a fundraiser set up to help them financially.

“It is just amazing. I was stressing out a lot so this will help us heaps,” Ms Davidson said.

Visit Little George’s Neuroblastoma Fight on GoFundMe to donate: https://www.gofundme.com/little-georges-neuroblastoma-fight