My name is Bridget and I’m writing in honor of my daughter Syniyah.
As a parent I begin to experience many changes in my child but I had taken her to all of her doctors appointments and she had her yearly physical and everything was normal. Life continued to get harder and things started to show at school and I was blamed a lot for my parenting style. But my child completely stopped playing as a kid & would cry out in pain & stopped eating. She would sleep for hours when she got home from school to the point some days I didn’t even see her. I took her back & forth to the doctor & even took her to a psychiatrist, which was a complete disaster. One day when I took her to the ER I straight out asked them if it could be Leukemia and the doctor said oh no nothing like that you’re so far off. Not realizing that I had worked in healthcare for years & knew the signs. I took relief & comfort in those words and was like okay you’re overthinking things.
A little while later I received a phone call from the hospital telling me that something showed on my daughter ‘s x-ray in both of her legs but they didn’t know what I needed to follow up with her PCP. By this time, I had to call and demand an appointment with her regular primary doctor due to COVID-19 & how things were being run because I needed her to see that there was something major going on with my child. It was more than just growing pains. She called and got everything set up to have her admitted to the hospital when she started to see something was wrong herself. It took days and they wanted to discharge us a couple of times without answers still & I refused. Then on August 10, 2020 just right after her 7 birthday she was diagnosed with B- ALL Leukemia. The same doctor that told me oh no that I took comfort in from those words a few weeks ago stood there while they told me & I said I’m so sorry. It was a long 2 years of treatment for her but we got through it & she rang the bell November 15,2022. It was not easy at all but my baby she now getting back to living a normal life & will start middle school this year. So many days I questioned would this day ever happen.
Submitted by Bridget
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