Hazel’s Story

Site created on August 31, 2020

We are using this CaringBridge site to keep family and friends updated in one place, no donations are needed at this time, just keep on praying. 🧡💛

Hazel's CaringBridge story starts on August 26th when she was admitted to the 10th floor of St. Vincent hospital with blood abnormalities. 

Hazel is an energetic, fun-loving girl who loves dance, jumping off furniture with her brother Noah and riding her bike to the park. Hazel has been looking forward to starting kindergarten this fall.  However, over the three weeks, changes in her high energy demeanor along with her parent's keen awareness were key to uncovering her medical issues early. 

Hazel started sleeping through the night and stopped making nightly visits to crawl in bed with her parents. In most cases, this would be a great thing, but then she started falling asleep randomly throughout the day and didn't have the energy to play and run around like usual.  After a small fever, a quick doctor’s visit led to some important blood tests which uncovered concerning results. Hazel underwent a blood transfusion after being admitted to the hospital, while the doctors ran more tests relatively quickly to provide more definitive answers for Hazel. 

Hazel was diagnosed with B-Progenitor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. She started treatments on August 29, 2020, and will require ongoing treatments for the next 2.5 years.  

You can learn more about this leukemia and its treatment by going here:  https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/acute-lymphocytic-leukemia/symptoms-causes/syc-20369077.

We appreciate your support and words of hope and encouragement. 

Thank you for visiting! 

Newest Update

#HazelStrong 🦄

Journal entry by Sarah Bootz —

In honor of the amazing work that HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Oncology Team and the Child Life Specialist Team has done with our brave little Hazel Grace this year we wanted to give back. 

We will be donating toys, games, overnight necessities, and play medical supplies to give to the hospital! If you would like to help us with this donation please feel free to make a donation to my PayPal (https://www.paypal.me/sarahbootz), or with cash or check. With your donation we will send you this #HazelStrong bracelet. 🧡💛

If you would like a bracelet please contact either Michael or myself and we will get one out to you. 😊

This is an important cause for our family as Hazel is going through so much and HSHS St Vincent and the Child Life Specialist Team, has been amazing throughout her entire experience so far.
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