And he said to Lilly, 'What about Mickey Mouse?' And she said,' That's good, I think that will do just fine.' And that's how Mickey Mouse was born in 1928 on a train ride from New York to Hollywood."
"They say, 'Well, we'll tell her it's just a cold, or it's just a virus, or we'll tell her she'll have surgery and then everything will be fine, '" said Dr. Lawrence Wolfe, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York.