Everest, our sweet little angel, was diagnosed with Wilms Tumor at age 13 months and had to have her left kidney removed shortly thereafter. She started chemo about 3 weeks after her surgery.
She was healthy as we could tell. Meeting all milestones and was growing very well. She was pale and started being more sleepy but the real thing that made us discover the cancer was when I was nursing her to sleep one night, I felt a stiffness in her left side. My heart sank because I feared it was something bad. The next day we had her PCP check it out and she ordered an ultrasound. Exactly 7 days after I felt her belly, she underwent kidney removal surgery.
She is the only child in our family and everyone was devastated when we heard that she had cancer and would need to have her kidney removed.
She’s been so incredibly strong throughout everything. The day after her left kidney was removed, she tried to play on the floor and was rolling around within hours of her surgery.
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