Having a kid with cancer is already a parent’s worst nightmare. An Edmonton family is dealing with the added stress of being turned away from their scheduled chemotherapy session and sent home.

“Really, really disheartening, really frustrating and really stressful,” said Erica Thomas about their experience this week at the Stollery Children’s Hospital.

For patients who knows how the process works, it’s also frustrating and scary.

“My world (was) turned upside down,” said 11-year-old Ben Thomas, who is dealing with a relapse of his cancer.

Ben has been through the cancer treatment process before and knows what to expect: “The first time around we never, I don’t think we ever, waited around for a bed.”

Ben was first diagnosed 5.5 years ago with nephroblastoma, also known as Wilms tum

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