In the beginning....
Well, a few weeks ago we noticed Tyler at dinner time, he looked really tired and his skin tone would be pale. We just chalked it up as he had a rough day/week at school. We then noticed he would be really tired after sleeping 8 to 10 hours when we woke him for school. He got to where he would just lye around until time to go to school. He would not eat, he was exhausted. Even though we asked if he was okay or wanted to eat, he would always say he was not hungry. After a couple of days or so, Tyler told me that he had been going to the water fountain at school in the mornings, to keep from throwing up.
The next week, Monday at school he fell on the playground and hit his head on the ground that left a bump and a visit to the nurses office at school. That same week we believe it was 3 to 4 times he was in the nurses office, very unusual for Tyler. We thought he was having trouble with bullying or schoolwork, because it was so unusual behavior for Ty. That same week, Thursday I kept him out of school and took him to pediatric clinic to make sure no concussion or major head injury. He went thru the motions of the physical and passed all physical aspects. Doctor said possible mild concussion could not be ruled out, but he was good to go and a healthy young boy.
That following Monday we send Ty off to school, despite him saying he did not want to go to school. We have to go to work and he has to attend school. I receive that call from our school nurse. She tells me Tyler has now thrown up at school and his color appears to look a bit jaundice. Our principal was called in as well and she agreed. I immediately went to get Tyler to take him to the pediatric clinic for some blood work.
On Tuesday I kept Tyler home because he did not hold down his breakfast and was still lying around, and thought it was best until we had some bloodwork answers.
At around 9:35a.m. that morning I received the call from the clinic that Tyler had some abnormal blood cells that were showing up as leukemia and that all paperwork has been sent to Arkansas Children's Hospital and we needed to head that way with Tyler to the ER, where a staff of doctors and specialists would be waiting to see and starting treating Ty....
So, this pretty much happened overnight.
