My oldest daughter, Josey, had had low platelet counts since she was born, but the doctors always said it was nothing serious. When Josey was 7 years old, though, I noticed her bruising from gymnastics had gotten much worse, and she was more tired than usual. So I had her blood counts checked again.
The bloodwork showed more abnormalities, so I pushed the doctors to figure out what was going on. After a bone marrow biopsy, we learned...
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I had adrenal cancer as an infant in 1985, so the word ‘survivor’ has been part of my vocabulary my whole life. Even though I was too...