In June of 2015 Emma Rae was diagnosed with Pre-B ALL. She had been sick for quite some time, and we couldn’t quite figure out what was wrong with her. After doing some research on our own, we had suspicions in the back of our mind that it might be leukemia, but we still weren’t prepared when we got the news. We are a military family and were set to move the day after Emma Rae was diagnosed, and we had to make some very quick decisions so that we could move forward with her care. SO much has...

Emma was diagnosed with Pre-B Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia just six days before her third birthday. She was doing great in therapy until she entered the maintenance phase of therapy which lasted about a year and a half. One of the drugs used in this phase, methotrexate, which is used to prevent the cancer from spreading to her spine and brain, caused her to have brain lesions and damage to her basal ganglia. Emma began having seizures because of this, but she is now doing much better and is on...