When Madyson was 7 months old, she started having random fevers and petechiae one weekend. We took her to multiple hospitals but all the tests they did came back negative. Her blood work was all over the place so her pediatrician sent her to Texas Children’s Hospital. They had to do a bone marrow sample to find the cancer.
Madyson went thru 5 rounds of chemotherapy. Multiple lumbar punctures and bone marrow samples. Multiple Echos and EKG, her heart became weakened in the first round of chemo. Through it all, she still remains a happy little girl.
This has definitely changed all of our lives because Madyson is the first baby in our family that has had childhood cancer. We now have a new understanding and appreciation for others who have gone through the same journey. It hits different when it’s your own child. Her four-year-old sister never fully understood why her baby sister was sick, just that she knew she was. It affected her more than we thought. In a way, we see that she was robbed of her baby sister for 6 months. I was scared they would resent each other because we put a lot of our focus on Madyson to get her better.
Madyson is thriving at 16 months old today. She is a little behind on doing some things that babies tend to do at certain ages but she is catching up quickly. I have never known a more strong-willed child who has beaten cancer the way she has. She won the hearts of everyone she met with her sweet happy self.
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