CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WWBT) - 7-year-old Kasen Diggs practices his golf swing on the putting green, finding peace in a place that offers normalcy after a year that turned his family’s world upside down.

“These kids are the center of our universe,” said Claudia Diggs, Kasen’s mother.

During Memorial Day weekend last year, Kasen Diggs was not feeling well.

“We were at the campground and Kasen spiked a fever,” Claudia Diggs said. “We kind of did this like teetering of like a fever with no symptoms and then he would drop his fever, but then he would get a little nauseous.”

A trip to the pediatrician led to chest X-rays that revealed unexpected and alarming results.

“His entire left side of his lung was filled with fluid, and he had a big mass that was encasing his heart,” Claudia Diggs said.

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