5-year-old girl wears a different princess gown to each chemotherapy treatment Lilli Durante faced 20 chemotherapy sessions with strength...and a sense of whimsy. Last December, 4-year-old Lilli Durante woke up one morning and her left eye was crossed. Her parents took her to numerous doctors and eventually learned Lilli had an optic pathway glioma, cancerous growths on her optic nerve. Left untreated, Lilli could lose her vision. Doctors couldn’t operate so they started chemotherapy. While her parents felt sad and scared, the toddler reacted to treatment with strength and a sense of whimsy: Lilli wears a different princess gown to every chemotherapy treatment. “She just knew she had to get some medicine for her sick eye. She is really a trooper through all of it,” mom, Courtney Durante, 33, of Irwin, Pennsylvania, told TODAY Parents. “She loves wearing big gowns, the bigger the better. The fluffier, the sparklier, the better.” When 5-year-old ...
