Ariella is a very feisty, spunky 10 year old girl. She loves being silly and just the simplest things make her laugh. Her favorite thing to do is dance and her goal is to get back to dancing ASAP. She likes unicorns and emojis (especially the poop emoji). Ariella enjoys reading and being creative with crafts but mostly wants to play with her friends.
In February of 2017, Ariella was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma. Leading up to her diagnosis, she experienced weight loss, lack of appetite and pain in her leg where the tumor was. She had had 16 rounds of chemo with one to go. She had limb salvage surgery on her leg and is currently in an external fixator with limited mobility. She also had 2 punctured lungs from central line placement requiring chest tubes. She has been unable to attend school and I am almost out of leave for work meaning no paycheck and I will have to pay expensive health insurance premiums. So much has changed since Ariella’s diagnosis. We spend every other week in the hospital for up to 5 days and my husband and I take turns sleeping there so we don’t have much time together. It is very hard to get errands and such done and much of our time is spent running back and forth to appointments.
Through this, Ariella has seen so many different organizations and wants to start her own. She wants to call it Ari’s Bears and donate Build a Bears to kids in hospitals. Even through all this Ariella has empathy for others and wants to help.
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