Brooke Mulford
11/27/04
4 years old at diagnosis
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)

Brooke has always been such a happy and a tenderhearted little girl full of energy and a love for life. She never complained about anything until last Christmas when she started limping and complaining of pain in her leg. She opened her gifts and then just wanted to lie on the couch with ice on her leg. Soon after she was unable to straighten her legs, the pain was unbearable and she started running a fever. January 5, 2009 we were told that our precious only child had a very aggressive cancer and that had started in her right adrenal gland and had already spread through pretty much every bone in her body and 80-90% of her bone marrow. Since that awful day, Brooke has had 6 rounds of chemo, 3 surgeries, 2 stem cell transplants, 12 days of radiation and is currently in a 6 month immunotherapy clinical trial (ch.14.18). She has never once complained about having cancer or going through any of her treatments. She actually gets excited every time we need to go back to the hospital. She amazes me every single day. She still has a long way to go but she is responding well to her treatments and we pray that someday this will all be just a memory and she will be back doing all the things she loves to do.