All it took for me was to take her in to the emergency room (because she was constipated for a few days and nothing seemed to work) and the Triage Nurse said she looked pale. They drew her blood, and it came back abnormal , so they had a Blood Doctor examined the blood. Her White Blood Counts were really high, and the DR. told me that the only thing that makes it so high is Leukemia. WOW, I thought, what a mothers nightmare to hear . I felt that my whole world was trumbling down. I have been with Edith since the first day she was admitted. Edith was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia. She is in the first stages of this disease. She is in the Induction Phase, and there are many more phases to come to. She is 7 months old and is a beautiful child. It has been hard for me and my family to see my our baby girl go through so much. My Husband just recently lost his job, and has only been working part time off and on. I myself was working fulltime, but I am not able to work, I want to be able to be with my daughter the whole 9 yards. I breastfeed Edith, and this is the only thing that really consoles her. She is now considered to be Neutropenic, which means she has no immune system, and let me tell you it is awful to see your child in so much pain. She has to be on morphein every hour on the hour. It is hard for me because I have other kids at home, & Just trying to maintain a full house hold, & Being in the hospital has been hard. We just have faith in god, & Medicine, that our daughter will recover as soon as possible. It is a lot of education for myself. I want to be able to be on top of what Doctors are going to give my daugther. I have to be her Case Manager / Advocate /Nurse/ Mother. I am blessed to have gone into the ER when I knew something was wrong, and to think I only took her because she was constipated...... now we are here. You can go to her website at http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/edithgonzalez
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