kvanderwal@gigisplayhouse.org<\/a>.<\/p>\nIzzy was born with a blood condition, called\u00a0Transient myeloproliferative disorder or\u00a0TMD, which increased her risk of being diagnosed\u00a0with\u00a0\u00a0Acute\u00a0myeloid leukemia (AML). Even though Izzy\u2019s TMD resolved when she was three months old, a few months later, at just eight months old, she started breaking out with little red spots on her body, which are called petechiae. Those petechiae were an immediate indication that something was not right with Izzy\u2019s blood counts and, sure enough, a routine blood draw showed that her platelets were below the normal levels. A few days later, Izzy had a bone marrow biopsy which confirmed every parents\u2019 worst nightmare, and officially led to her diagnosis of Acute\u00a0megakaryoblastic\u00a0leukemia\u00a0(AMkL).<\/p>\n
Izzy spent close to six months in the hospital and underwent five rounds of intense chemotherapy treatments. She was only allowed to leave the hospital to go home for about a week in between each of her treatments. Izzy and her family received an early Christmas gift in 2017 when Izzy\u2019s counts recovered high enough for her to be able to go home for good on December 9, 2017!<\/p>\n
Izzy and her family donated a bell to Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children for\u00a0all of\u00a0the childhood cancer warriors.\u00a0 It is proudly on display in the main lobby. Izzy is right back on track with her development and enjoys riding her horse, Harley, swimming with her brother and sister, playing with her many baby dolls, reading and watching her best buddies, Elmo and Abby. She is an amazing childhood cancer warrior and will be three years cancer free this upcoming December!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is Izzy.\u00a0 She loves playing with her siblings, watching Elmo, and riding horses. \u201cIzzy lives in Littleton. This bubbly little blue-eyed, brown-haired beauty recently took her first steps and is now a proud walker. She is changing the world one giggle and smile at a time. This little girl has accomplished a lot in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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This is Izzy.\u00a0 She loves playing with her siblings, watching Elmo, and riding horses. \u201cIzzy lives in Littleton. This bubbly little blue-eyed, brown-haired beauty recently took her first steps and is now a proud walker. She is changing the world one giggle and smile at a time. This little girl has accomplished a lot in her 3 years, but it\u2019s bigger than you know. On top of the amazing things that make her Izzy, she is also a cancer warrior.<\/p>\n