Cancer & surviving from cancer

How i got the diagnosed of cancer

When I was 2 years and a half I was in a day care and my mom was working; in the day care it was sleeping time...so I was laid in the mattress I had and a teacher was walking to check if the other kids were sleeping. When she checked on me, she looked at my back and saw that I had like a big bruise in all my back and she called my mom to come and pick me up from the day care. My mom picked me up from the day care and took me to the hospital...it was a Friday. They did every exam on me, they took my blood for the test...everything!. Then I was in a room waiting for the doctor to come and tell us what I had. Finally after a long time waiting, the doctor came to the room and talked to my mom about what I had. And the doctor told her that I have been diagnosed with cancer(leukemia)and that I needed treatment immediately. My mom started crying, but I didn't know why she was crying I was only 2 years old. Then they took me to a room where they needed to operate me. So the next thing I woke up...I was in a room in bed with an serum beside me and a catheter in my chest. My mom was beside me holding my hand. I said to my mom that I wanted to go to the cinema room. My mom took me to the cinema room and we watched the movie called *Monsters Inc*. And that was when my mom saw something positive from me, because I just woke up from a chest surgery!...and I wanted to go to see a movie!. Other children might be in pain from the surgery they had. But I didn't felt pain after the surgery. After we watched the movie we got to this huge room where there were a lot of toys. And i began to play with this huge pirate ship with this small pirate character. And I was smiling while I was playing with the pirate ship. My mom was always watching me. Then the day passed...it was the first week of treatments. My dad and my mom were with me beside the bed. The next two days my hair was falling off. I was a little scared because my hair was falling off. But then the other day I liked the look on me. I was being positive. The next week when I woke up in the morning , my mom asked me if I wanted her to shave her hair. I grabbed her hand and said no to her. Because she thought i didn't like the shaved hair when it fell off and to make me feel better, she asked me that. Then the third week my family came to visit me and that was the moment I felt even more happier even though I had leukemia or had a shaved head. I remember one time that I was very hungry and my family bought me a pizza from Pizza Hut and I was eating like an animal from the hunger I had. But every day there was this lady with a golden retriever called *Maximus* and he always sat in a chair and puts his paws in my hand. Then in one he jumps to the bed and lays besides me. But i had fun in one when Maximus and I got to walk all the hospital together. Everyone in the hospital was so nice with me and I liked visiting other patients because I wanted to make friends. There was this secretary called Jessica and she's the most sweetest person I ever met in the hospital besides the doctor too. Then on a Monday the day care teachers and students(friends) came to visit me. That was the other happiest day in my life. And they did a big wallpaper filled with colored hands that said: *may god be with you always. We pray that god cures your cancer diagnose. We and your friends are here for you, waiting for you in open arms*. Love; Day care center. And I loved what my friends did to me. I was brave the nurse did the operation of the catheter in my chest. I was nervous but I wasn't scared because I knew everything would be alright. Plus I knew god was with me in the operation and I wasn't scared of death. Scared doesn't exist, is only in your head.