Episode 11: Interview With My Kids - Victoria Ysabelle

Well, two weeks before graduation, you called us to let us know that you were really sick.

And the person that was your mentor at the time called us and told us that it was something to worry about.

Your platelet count was super low, and everything pointed to you having leukemia.

And you were very, very sick.

And that was two weeks before graduation.

And we wanted to bring you home because we wanted you close.

And you said, no, I can stay because I want to graduate.

But anyway, you went to the doctor.

Dad and I spent two nights without sleep praying for you that God will do this thing in your life.

And I remember when we told you when you get to the doctor, you call us on the phone and you put the phone there so we can hear what he has to say.

And we had already consulted our family doctor who was an oncologist.

And he told us, bring her home immediately.

That platelet count is crazy.

And everything was pointed to leukemia, everything.

And so we spent...

The whole two nights praying, he went to the doctor and the first thing he said was, it's not leukemia.

And that, of course, helped us breathe a little bit more.

But it was a serious disease.

You were very, very sick with an autoimmune disease that was killing your platelets and you needed immediate treatment.

Thank goodness it wasn't chemotherapy or anything like that, but it was a serious treatment and you needed to come home.

And so we drove up there to your graduation and to get you and make sure that you got the care that you needed.

Um, and so that was the time that was important, you know, for you and your faith journey, I think.

Yeah, that that's kind of like the season that I was talking about.

I remember we went, I went to the doctor and he basically told me like, I'm like 90% sure that this is cancer, but I don't want you to worry because I could be wrong.

Right.