Mya is such a happy child. She tries to help in everything she can. She loves to learn and help cook, she recently wanted to start learning Spanish. She laughs about everything. She loves dancing and having books read to her. She loves animals.
In November of 2022, Mya began having fever symptoms which were thought to be a tooth infection, then an ear infection. After an urgent care visit and a PCP visit, however, Mya seemed to be getting paler and more fatigued so I took her to the ER. My mommy gut was saying this was more than just an infection. I thought maybe just extreme dehydration, I just never expected to be given a diagnosis of leukemia for my 5-year-old daughter.
The struggles are that we have a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old that have to be at family members’ homes for treatment days or at times they can’t go places like “normal” kids for fear of bringing any small virus home. Sometimes holidays or parties are missed or postponed or even canceled for the same reasons.
We have had to adjust to a new normal where we can’t always attend events or go to parks on the weekends or when they are most likely crowded. We can’t always go to birthdays or have parties like in the past. However we have found new things to do outdoors like buying a projector and movie screen to do outdoor movies or building a goldfish pond and getting hammocks to enjoy mother nature, we have found ways to as they say “slow down and smell the roses.”
She is the strongest person I know, even stronger than me!
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