The parents of a 17-month-old girl confided in the infant's symptoms that led to her heartbreaking cancer diagnosis.
Her parents Madison, 40, and Jared Lampard, 41, told her NCA NewsWire that two weeks before her diagnosis, Ariel had conjunctivitis that left her face disfigured. He said it swelled up "like a balloon."
"It was just huge and her eyes were really swollen. I thought it was pretty weird," Madison said.
"'What the hell is going on with her face?
The Canberran said that before Ariel was found to have leukemia, doctors told her she had the 'childcare virus'.
"She, like all children, had all the nursery germs in the sun."
But months after the two first noticed Ariel's "swollen" face, the mother followed her intuition and asked the doctor for blood and urine tests. I urged you to do
"I said, 'She still has a swollen face and it's getting really bad.' You know, I was really starting to get a little worried now." said Madison.
"It may sound silly, but I knew intuitively that it was cancer."
It was while the couple was sitting in the clinic undergoing a series of tests that they were told that their daughter had leukemia and needed to be taken by ambulance to Canberra Hospital.
We were told. Madison said.
``I think you always think it won't happen to you, it will happen to someone else. I never imagined I would get cancer.”
On the same day Ariel was taken to hospital, the family was flown by emergency flight to the Royal Children's Hospital in Sydney. process.
Madison said his daughter was always "absolutely scared" of people wearing masks.
"She always sees someone coming into the room with a mask on. "I don't know that she'll start screaming or crying because I'm afraid they'll hurt her," she said. It's hard for us parents because we can't tell her what's going on, and she's always and absolutely terrified."
Children's Cancer Institute study Approximately 280 people aged 0-19 years are diagnosed with leukemia in Australia each year, making it the most common form of childhood cancer, according to.
Leukemia is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow that produces too many abnormal white blood cells.
Cancer can cause a variety of symptoms, including bruising and bleeding, fatigue, fever, mouth sores, swollen lymph nodes, and skin rashes.
The family has a long way to go and she will have to wait five years before we know if Ariel can go into clinical remission.
A friend of her family launched a GoFundMe to help cover the cost of living for her family now that she can't work as well as treat Ariel. doing.
