Meet Payte!!

Since September is Childhood Cancer awareness month, I am going to be featuring a new child (ren) each day!  The unfortunate thing about this, I was able to fill all 30 days with a child with cancer, and could have even filled each day with much more :(  Be aware! Gold Gold for the kids.

This is Payte. He was diagnosed October 13, 2010. He had not been real sick prior to be diagnosed. Looking back he had some weakness along with pain in his knees and back. We shrugged off the pain as growing pains and football injuries. A week prior he had got real pale and spent the week with Grandma. When the kids came home he was still pale and very weak. I took him into the pediatrician on Tuesday evening they did a quick finger poke and his hemoglobin was down to 5.6. They immediately called the hospital of our choice. And of course I asked where would you send your kid so they called Cardon Children's hospital. After doing several uturns trying to figure out if I was picking my daughter up from practice or going to hospital I had another parent take her home and we drove to hospital. They sent us straight to the 7th floor, Oncology. The doctor came in and met us there. The next morning he came in again and asked to speak to us in another room.....our lives were changed forever with his words.