Mum shares a harrowing insight into her 10-year-old's daily battle with cancer.

A brave mother has used Facebook to share the harrowing reality of her 10-year-old son’s battle with cancer.

The image, which was picked up by Facebook page Love What Matters, features young Drake, frail and visibly in pain, wearing a pull-up nappy and supporting his weight on the bathroom vanity. It was taken shortly after his mother had carried him to the bathroom.

Defending her decision to share the confronting image, Drake’s mother dedicates the post to “anyone battling cancer or enduring chemotherapy or anyone going through this horrible disease.”

“The picture I’m posting is from this morning, and before you scream and cry ‘why would she post a picture of him in a pull up, the indecency’… life is not always politically correct and pretty, it is real,” she writes.

“Life isn’t pretty, and cancer destroys a person.”

The women then describes, in detail, the harsh reality of watching her son fight a disease that takes so much.

“Yes, he is in a pull up [nappy] because 75% of the time he can’t control his bathroom habits. This is skin and bones, because I have to beg him to eat ONE green bean for supper, or drink a cup of water throughout the day,” the woman writes.

“This is having your son sleep with you at night because he is afraid of something happening and being alone, and by something I mean dying. This is having middle of the night conversations with a ten year old, asking if he dies will he go to heaven and will he see his dad there and be able to talk and play with him.

“This is him, throwing up every medication I give him and him dry heaving because his stomach is empty, except for the spoonful of yogurt I just gave him with his pills. This is having to take 44 chemo pills last week in a matter of 24 hours.”

Going into further detail on the emotional toll Drake’s cancer has his mental health and the health of his loved ones, she continues:

“This is him telling me, ‘Mommy, I’m not going to make it.’ This is him not wanting to be touched, because it hurts too much, and using morphine to get through his day.”

“This is him telling me he is scared and thinks he won’t see his 11th birthday. This is him and me, telling him that I will continue to fight for him when he can’t. This is him and me, and our world.”

At the time of writing, the post has been ‘liked’ over 200,000 times, and a mailbox for love letters of support is being established.