Meet Gabby

This past July Gabby (2 1/2 years old) started to have pain in her legs and her body was heating up. After going to Children's Urgent Care, we told that she had a virus but they just didn't know. We called her Dr's office and they weren't concern about it, so they told us that if we couldn't wait that we needed to take her to a Children's Hospital. It was a Wed night on July 11, that we took her to T-bird, and the Resident Dr there knew what she had after seeing her blood work. We were then transport to Cardon's Children's out in Mesa, where we begun more testing to see what she had. By Fri the 13th, we were going in for surgery to place a Central Line, and to sit down with the Oncology doctors to discuss the treatment plan for the next 3 years. We were in the hospital for 2 1/2 weeks, with may procedures been done and chemo. We were able to go home for a short period to find out that her constipation issue, just increased by double because of the chemo. So Gabby was impact with 10 feet of stool, so they had to place a NG tube down her nose. Since Aug, Gabby was doing really good as far as not going back into the hospital. She is given way to many meds for a child, but as long as then help, we do what we have to do as parents. Since Gabby hasn't really had good counts, she spends the most of her time at home:( Oct 1.. Gabby turned 3 When the first week of Dec hit, Gabby became very sick with bad headaches. It turned out to be that her body was fighting off a virus within herself. At this time we were starting a really bad phase of her treatment. We ended up in the hospital most of Dec and the first week of Jan. This virus that she got, was one that children usually don't make it out, and the doctor's had seen this type of virus in a children her age. Usually newborn baby's get it and they don't survive this viruses. So are doctors let's us know that we are very luck and that we have one special little girl. As of Mon, Gabby's counts have been the highest that they have been, so with that being said that they could increase the amount of Chemo she got. Since we got home yesterday all she wants to do is sleep and her body is hurting. As of know Gabby contiues to take several meds twice a day, and she takes them all by herself. Not matter what for the most part she always has a smile on her face, and continues to be our Little Hero and she has show me so much about life and how we take the little things for granted. Images by: "Oh Shoot" Photography