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Hailey’s Story

Site created on September 7, 2019

Hailey is a smart, caring, loving 9 year old little girl. She enjoys arts and crafts, gymnastics, and spending time with her friends. She loves her siblings with all her heart and soul. She has always been a very healthy and active child.

On the evening of August 26th, Hailey came to me with a little bit of swelling on the top of her foot. She wasn’t in any pain and was running around like normal. We just figured she hit it on something or was horse playing with her brother or sister and didn’t remember hurting it. So, we watched it for a couple of days and iced it, wrapped it, elevated it…. All the normal stuff. Well by Wednesday night, it wasn’t any better so we decided she needed an x-ray. So...the next day, off we went to CHOA urgent care for an x-ray, nothing was broken but the x-ray was abnormal. They immediately referred us to CHOA Emergency Room which took us right back and started blood work thinking she had a bone infection. The doctor came back with normal blood work and recommended an MRI. Fast track to MRI was for Hailey to be admitted because outpatient could be a week or more so we stayed int he hospital that night and she had her MRI Friday morning. Thursday night we met with the Orthopedic Surgeon and he recommended a biopsy along with the MRI to “rule out” certain things so Hailey had both and by Friday afternoon the doctor was able to confirm it was bone cancer. She has an Ewing’s Sarcoma Tumor on her foot. It is an extremely rare type of childhood bone cancer. It was unimaginable and the news we feared most.

We were sent home the following day to wait for a follow up call that would happen on Tuesday after the holiday weekend. We got home and our family was finally reunited so we could begin to process everything that just happened in such a short amount of time. We were all in awe of Hailey and how brave she was during all the pokes and the tests and the surgery. It is so hard to imagine being her age and being at school one day and facing a cancer diagnosis 24 hours later. She is so strong.

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Newest Update

Journal entry by Kimberly Lloyd — Oct 11, 2021

Well here we are 2 years since diagnosis and 15 months since finishing treatment, Hailey is growing into her “tween years” and she is strong and healthy. She started middle school and is enjoying her classes (especially art) and making new friends and so thankful for lunch with her bestie Julia!! It is quite a transition and adjustment for any kid but you put cancer and covid in the equation and I am just amazed everyday at how far she has come. I am beyond proud of her for working through some her struggles with anxiety and facing those fears head on!

We had a bit of a scare with COVID back in early September and Hailey did test positive but her case was very mild and we count our blessings everyday that it wasn’t worse and is behind us! Her quarantine caused her follow up at CHOA to be pushed out 3 weeks so she went today for scans, lab work and check up with her oncologist. Everything looked great! They did x-rays this time and will pick back up with MRI and CT in January. We are so thankful for a clear check up and that Hailey gets to go through holiday season without having more follow ups!

Hope this update finds everyone healthy and doing well! We appreciate the continued support and prayers!

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