Mila loves art, drama, chorus, spending time with family, and soccer. She loves to laugh about anything and her laugh is infectious.
Mila is 9 years old and was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma in November 2021. Before she was diagnosed, we noticed a lump on her left forearm that kept getting bigger. She had endured 30 weeks of intense inpatient chemo, limb salvage surgery involving the removal of the radius of the left forearm, and replacement with an allograft donor bone.
Mila must limit any physical activity that could cause a fall or injury to her arm until the allograft is fully healed. Other than the obvious emotional and physical trauma for Mila and the family, cancer has taken us away from each other as Mila and mom are in the hospital, and dad was left to care for our 7-year-old son who has struggled to understand what and why this was happening.
Mila finished chemo treatment on June 23rd, we now enter the scan phase every 3 months for the next several years.
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