JISHOU, HUNAN — Medical fugitives Colleen Hauser and her son, Daniel, 13, have returned home to Minnesota after a week on the run.
Daniel, who has stage 2B Hodgkin’s lymphoma, was evaluated at a hospital in the Twin Cities, according to The Associated Press. Although he can stay at home for now, he is in protective custody of Brown County. A sheriff’s deputy is posted near the family’s home in Sleepy Eye.
In a weird sidebar to this drama, while they were on the run, the Hausers connected with a video production outfit called Asgaard Media. A video interview of Daniel and Colleen was later sent to the Brown County Sheriff’s office.
On a video released by the sheriff’s department, Colleen Hauser described how the first chemotherapy treatment Daniel received made him sick and she said he planned to run away from home.
“Then what do I have? I mean, he was going to run,” Hauser said. “And that just broke my heart. I can’t have one of my children running away from something that they should face.”
Hauser expresses optimism that her son can beat cancer, but the video doesn’t disclose where they were or when it was made. The video was produced by Asgaard Media, which also arranged the charter flight for the mother and son to return home.
At one point on the video, an unseen woman asks Daniel what he’d say to people who claim he’s not old enough to decide whether he needs chemotherapy. “I’d tell them to back off,” he replies.
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