Finn loves the colors red and dark green! He loves dinosaurs, especially carnivores! He also loves anything with a motor, planes, helicopters, boats, cars, and trucks. He loves to “wrestle” with dad and Bubba. He loves to get tickled and be chased.
Finn was diagnosed with B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in April of 2020. Before diagnosis, he had night terrors and sweating, where he would wake up screaming but couldn’t be touched or consoled. He was pale, with dark circles under his eyes, and red spots on his body. Eventually, he got big bruises on the tops of his feet and started to limp. On the last day before diagnosis, he had a low-grade fever and was lethargic.
He is in occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech therapy and has some hearing loss. Mom has stayed home to take care of Finn since diagnosis and we delayed starting kindergarten until he is six years old.
We are an active duty military family that had just moved from South Carolina to Guam in February 2020. In April mom brought Finn to the emergency room. Less than 24 hours later our family was on an Air Force plane to Honolulu for diagnosis and treatment. Guam couldn’t treat him. In Honolulu, Finn was diagnosed and started treatment. His doctors wanted him to stay in Hawaii because of the uncertainty of the pandemic and flying commercially. So, we lived in Hawaii for a year in complete isolation. After a year of treatment in Hawaii, we were transferred to Connecticut to continue treatment. This move also got us closer to family.
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