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"We were on a camping trip in Idaho, and Olivia had some petechiae on her arm, which is a bluish-colored rash. It was super hot out and the people we were with said maybe it could be heat rash. My gut said it was something else. I took a picture and sent it to our pediatrician. We were driving home the next day when the pediatrician responded and was like, 'If you're not already back in Portland, you should go to an urgent care. Otherwise, bring her right in.' So we did. They did blood work, and the next day they told us to go straight to the children's hospital. It was 24 hours from when we noticed the rash to getting the diagnosis of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). She was diagnosed one month shy of her fourth birthday. Olivia has received 22 transfusions so far. In the beginning, she needed transfusions because her counts were so low from cancer. Within a month of her treatment starting, she's been in what they consider remission, and relatively cancer-free. We ...

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