Chloe is smart, sassy, and very intuitive. She loves unicorns and sponge bob square pants. She loves her french bulldog, Olaf. She LOVES to swim and go to the beach.
One spring day, I was changing Chloe out of a bathing suit and saw a lump in her groin. It was hard and didn’t move easily. As a registered nurse, I knew it wasn’t a hernia, however that is what it appeared to be at first glance. She got an ultrasound which showed an enlarged lymph node and we were told to watch it for any changes or getting larger. It continued to get larger so we were referred to a surgeon who subsequently removed all of the mass and the pathology came back as B cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma.
She had a port placement, lumbar punctures with intrathecal chemo infusion, and bone marrow biopsies. She will be receiving weekly chemo and lab draws.
Chloe also was born with a short leg, so we have had our challenges with that. As of now, she wears a lift in her shoe. She was supposed to undergo major surgery to lengthen first her femur and then 1 year later reconstruct her knee and tibia. But now that she has cancer we have to put that surgery on hold for 3 years. She loves to dance but we couldn’t enroll her in dance classes. She has never once felt sorry for herself or asked “why me?” She’s a very strong girl.
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