“On July 23rd, we welcomed our son Jordan into the world. Shortly after, our 2 year old daughter Audriana wasn’t feeling well. We thought maybe she was being behavioral, because things were changing. She was acting different and not like herself. We thought she might be constipated. We took her to the doctor, and they weren’t too concerned, so they told us to go home and give her MiraLAX twice a day. She finally went, but she still had no energy. That Monday, we sent her to daycare to keep things normal for her, but when we picked her up, she wasn’t acting well. We went home and let her rest, hoping she would start to feel better. The next morning, Jake went to change her diaper, and she couldn’t move her legs on the table. It was like her legs were lifeless. We took her straight to the ER. They did labs. The doctor came back and said her hemoglobin is 2.1 and that can’t be right. Being a nurse, I said no way, you can’t function with a hemoglobin of 2.1. He thought it might be an error with the lab, so they redrew, and it came back low again. Did it a third time, and before we knew it, they came back and said they were going to fly Audriana to Rochester. We had no idea what was going on. She’s lucky to be alive. If we would have waited any longer, we could have woken up to her unconscious. We rushed to Rochester with Jordan, who was 7 days old. All in all, Audriana got 7 blood transfusions. This poor kid got poked left and right. It was pretty traumatic for her. We were there for 13 days. The hematologist oncologist came in to talk to us. At this point, I knew cancer was a big possibility. She told us it looks like Leukemia, but they had to do a bone marrow biopsy to know for sure. We were devastated. After the biopsy, she told us it was Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Our world was turned upside down, but the doctor said if you’re going to have a child with cancer, this is the cancer to get because it’s 95% curate, and the younger you are, the better chances you have. We had to start right away with planning on what we were going to do for treatment. We have 2 1/2 to 3 years of treatment. We go to Rochester every Monday to do chemo. With it being such a long treatment plan, it’s overwhelming to look ahead, so we are just trying to take it day by day. She’s responding well, but there’s a lot of fights that we have ahead. She’s going to go through a lot of different things. We just know we have to be there for each other. We have to lean on each other. We’ve also had to lean on other people. The support has been amazing. It’s very humbling. People we’ve never met have reached out and supported us. Everyone has been so wonderful. It makes us very appreciative. We are so thankful.”