A STORY OF RAELYN – Meet Raelyn
Treatment continues and life goes on for brave and feisty Raelyn
Mondays were supposed to be their day. Three-year-old Raelyn and her mom Sarah would play outside, run errands or just enjoy their time home alone together. But on March 6, 2017, Raelyn woke up with a stomachache that would not subside no matter what Sarah tried to relieve her daughter’s pain. “Something in my gut told me that we needed to take her somewhere because she does not act like this. She never complains about being sick,” says Sarah.
Emergency room doctors confirmed that Raelyn’s tummy ache was not something Sarah could fix. “They told me: ‘Her lab work doesn’t look right. Her platelets are very low, her spleen is enlarged—it’s the size of a football.’ So they admitted her to run some tests. They said it could be cancer or an infection,” Sarah says.
Test results later revealed that Raelyn had acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). She started intense chemotherapy treatment at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, which was repeated every seven days for eight months. “Every day I would wake up expecting her to be ill, but she is just so strong,” says Sarah. “Every day, she amazes me.”
A part of the maintenance phase of her treatment, Raelyn received chemotherapy through her port once a month and spinal chemo every three months. She also took as many as 10 pills daily to keep her on the road to a full recovery.
Today, Raelyn is a happy, energetic child who loves to swim with her brother. “She wants to be a mermaid when she grows up,” says Sarah. And Sarah and her husband Matt are committed to allowing Raelyn to explore every possibility and every new challenge.
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