Stage Four Leukemia Research Paper

Growing up, life is always supposed to be perfect. Parents try to keep their kids away from “evil” for as long as they can. Unfortunately I was shown this evil at a younger age than most. At the age of ten, which now is not very young but when I was ten, I did not know there was any evil. Until one day, my mom sat me down and told me that my four year old cousin Kyle had died of cancer and although we were not close to him I still had an interest to learn what this disease was. For a couple years I asked questions and looked into the disease. Kyle had stage four Leukemia which is sadly very common in children. I was interested how this disease started, how to find a cure for it. A few months later, my little sister got admitted into the hospital for an infection that the …show more content…
Although we were all very relieved that my sister did not have cancer, we were shocked that the doctors had misdiagnosed my sister. This made me even more curious as to how this disease was formed and if the misdiagnoses happen a lot. For years I looked all over, very quietly, just curious about what was going on in the world and why this terrible disease had no cure. Five years later I joined the cheerleading team and we made blankets for Akron Children’s Hospital for the kids on the cancer floor. I was so happy to see all the pictures that came back with the kids and their blankets, all so happy that someone was thinking about them and was hoping they were okay. Then, my sophomore year in high school I had the opportunity to meet the Ferrante Family. The mother Laurie had been diagnosed with cancer three times, the Aunt Vicki had just found out that she had cancer and their grandfather had died of cancer just years before we met. This family changed my life and I will forever be grateful for everything that they taught me throughout the past few