A Treasury of Miracles for Friends
“One month, he and his wife and daughters were happy and healthy, living in a dreamy part of Thousand Oaks, California, where they were involved in their church and every day seemed better than the last.
Then, just after Christmas, the Garretts’ youngest daughter, six-year-old Alicia, came down with a series of unexplained fevers. Two weeks of doctor visits gave them nothing to go on, no diagnosis. About that time, Alicia began bruising. Nothing that seemed out of the ordinary at first, just a b...ruised knee or a mark on her arm. But when the bruising got worse, Rob and his wife took Alicia back to the doctor’s office.
This time the doctor ran a series of blood tests. The news was worse than anything they’d imagined.
Alicia had leukemia.
“I’m afraid it’s advancing quickly,” the doctor told them. “She’ll need a bone marrow transplant very soon.”
Rob could barely feel his heartbeat as he listened to the news. It wasn’t possible. His brown-eyed little girl couldn’t have gotten so sick in so short a time.MoreLess
Then, just after Christmas, the Garretts’ youngest daughter, six-year-old Alicia, came down with a series of unexplained fevers. Two weeks of doctor visits gave them nothing to go on, no diagnosis. About that time, Alicia began bruising. Nothing that seemed out of the ordinary at first, just a b...ruised knee or a mark on her arm. But when the bruising got worse, Rob and his wife took Alicia back to the doctor’s office.
This time the doctor ran a series of blood tests. The news was worse than anything they’d imagined.
Alicia had leukemia.
“I’m afraid it’s advancing quickly,” the doctor told them. “She’ll need a bone marrow transplant very soon.”
Rob could barely feel his heartbeat as he listened to the news. It wasn’t possible. His brown-eyed little girl couldn’t have gotten so sick in so short a time.MoreLess
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