“I got the call around 3:30 a.m. I spent 9 months preparing for that call. 9 months worth of nights obsessively checking the volume on the phone, making sure it was charged, that it was close by, that I hadn’t somehow missed any calls. Well I got my call. Loud and clear.”
‘He was 6 months old and only 9 pounds. I am a living nightmare. They knew it was all a tremendous f*ck up. They knew he was like this because of them.’
‘I saw the fear in his eyes. He knew. His heart knew. His girl wasn’t ok. Both his beautiful girls were in the fight of their lives.’
“We sat there watching our beautiful, vibrant, sassy girl waste away. The shower was for sobbing. Then Kylie’s mother got an urgent phone call. The labs taken revealed something unimaginable. I held that 6-foot, 175-pound boy. I rocked him as he asked if he would lose her.”
‘I was punched in the face by a man who claimed to ‘love me so much.’ Then he said, ‘Now I’m going to call my mom to let her finish the job.’’
“He said, ‘Something is wrong with Wyatt.’ I open the shower curtain and see him holding my son out. I thought his neck was broken.”
‘When you wake up to your son’s number LEVELS UP! And we get to go home for a few days as he is killing CANCER!’
“So, I prayed. Asked for God’s Guidance. We prayed over Kristian as a family. Dancing next to my son in his hospital room became therapeutic for all of us.”
‘My heart stopped. She has leukemia’: Mom faces daughter with Down syndrome’s devastating diagnosis
“One of the first facts we learned was that children with Down syndrome are more likely to get leukemia. When my husband read those words to me, my heart sank, and I had a sickening feeling this would be one of the hardships we’d be facing someday.”
‘It started with the flu–or so I thought’: What a cancer scare taught this mom about the ‘great imitator’ disease
“It’s known as the ‘great imitator’ because it is good at presenting as other things: the flu, even cancer.”
‘When I was 12 weeks pregnant I was told he was going to have Down syndrome’: Mom didn’t want to hear ‘I’M SORRY’
“‘Your son either has an infection, or he has leukemia.’ My heart stopped in that moment. I didn’t know if I was ever going to be able to take my son home, or if I was going to lose him.”
How one teen’s wrong text led to thousands of dollars being donated to a boy with leukemia
“I opened up the text to see a young lady in a dress asking for an opinion on how she looked.”
‘We were soulmates. She was my rescue dog, but really she rescued me.’
“She saved me, more than once, she saved me… little by little I was able to find joy in life again.”
‘I age faster than I should. He also had what’s called aplastic anemia’: Lovebirds with disabilities share ‘far from ordinary’ fairy tale romance
With having a moderate case of progeria and knowing I aged faster, I was terrified I would never find someone to love me for who I was.
