The family of the lovestruck 8-year-old who battled leukemia most of his life is mourning his loss after he passed away Thursday.
David Spisak, Jr.,who was know for an adorable relationship with his 7-year-old girlfriend, Ayla Andrews, while he battled cancer, passed away while in his parents arms, according to a heartbreaking Facebook post on his mother’s page.
“David wants to be a hero” were the last coherent words he uttered, according to the post.
“I’m not ready to say things happen for a reason or a message of rainbows and sunshine just yet, but our baby boy was a fighter, a beautiful soul, a force to be reckoned with and of all the things, he is most definitely a hero,” his mother, Amber Floyd Spisak wrote in a post about David’s death on Thursday.
WTKRDavid Spisak, 8, was diagnosed with cancer four times before his parents decided to stop cancer treatments and let him live a normal life.
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David had been struggling with cancer since he was two and had been battling his fourth diagnosis of the disease when he died.
David spent the last months of his life with the girl he called “the love of his life,” his girlfriend Ayla Andrews, whom he met at school.
Amber Floyd Spisak/facebookAmber Floyd Spisak said that David had fought his cancer “with the strength of a thousand soldiers.”
“The best part was watching the way they just needed to be close to each other and their conversation never got shy or quiert. That was all they needed to be happy,” his mother told ABC News.
The two started “dating” after David stopped going to school because he got too sick. Andrews wrote him letters, saying how much she missed the sick boy, and scribbled her phone number on them.
Their mothers set up their first date at a bowling alley where the two hit it off.
Amber Floyd Spisak/facebookAmber Floyd Spisak holds the hand of her son while he died overnight on Thursday, according to a heartbreaking Facebook post on her page.
“Once we realized that this wasn’t the typical elementary school crush, once we saw this heartfelt connection that they have, we were so happy that she came into his life and taht he came to her life for some reason,” David’s mother told ABC.
Asked how David knew he loved his girlfriend, he simply said: “My heart,” to which Ayla responded “His heart tells him…and mine, too.”
David’s family hopes that he can finally rest after struggling with cancer for his entire, short life.
“Rest easy sweet boy, you fought an unfair fight with the strenght of a thousand soldiers that I could’ve never done…but you did it with grace,” Spisak wrote in the emotional Facebook post.
“No more struggling. Just rest.”
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