June 1st will forever remain in my heart as a very difficult day. Two years ago today we were told that our 23 month old Erin's blood test showed abnormal cancer cells and that she had Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
There is a very vivid slow motion movie in my mind of the first few hours of Erin's diagnosis, I almost wish I could show that to you so you could completely understand what it's like.
We took Erin's cancer on with brave faces and bits of humor (when we could find some), but I would never wish anyone to have to go through cancer with their child. We had hearts full of faith and hope and we relied heavily on the atonement of our Savior to get us through. It is an experience I would never want to repeat. We are so grateful to have it behind us, and we rejoice every day that we get further from it.
Erin has been in remission for about 18 months, we can truly breathe easily when she hits that 5 year complete remission mark when her chance of getting AML again is pretty much nil.
Hear what Erin has to say....
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We have been fundraising for our CureSearch walk comping up at the end of the summer. Very humbly we'd like to announce that right now our team is leading the entire state in fundraising! Did you just see me do a jump kick?
Way to go Cache Valley Cancer Kids!!
We are only about $1900 shy of our $5000 goal.
I challenge you to donate $5 right now!
I double dare you!
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Holy cow your CureSearch fundraising is out of control! Way to go! I'm so excited for our Utah CureSearch efforts! You guys are killing it this year! (And I'm a little jealous, too. :))
ReplyDeleteAnd I can't believe it's been two years! Where does the time go? Congrats!