A British man was told by doctors that due to the radiation treatment he was receiving for his thyroid cancer, he was not allowed to hold his newborn baby for fear of harming him.
Calvin Innes, 29, from Yorkshire, England, and was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and underwent surgery on his throat two weeks before his son was born, according to the Telegraph.
As part of the recovery treatment, Innes was prescribed radioiodine tablets which made him become radioactive. Unfortunately, this made radioactivity levels so high that doctors cautioned him to not hold or even be in the same room as his newborn for fear of passing on some negative effects.
"When you take the pills you become radioactive and for three weeks I wasn't allowed near my newborn son. I couldn't pick him up, I couldn't feed him, play with him or change his nappy," Innes said, who is a children's book illustrator.
"It was awful because I was having to watch my wife Kali do all these things and I was unable to help."
"While you're on the treatment, they have to check you with a Geiger counter every day to see how radioactive you are and if you're safe to be around people," he added.
Since then, Innes has stopped drug therapy and is now able to finally relish in holding his infant son for the first time. He is now waiting on his final results due this month as he has finally been able to enjoy spending some quality time with his wife and son.
While going through treatment Calvin released two early learning books called The Monster Book Of Colours And Numbers, which he dedicated to his new son.
