2020

How it all began.

December 2019 Cloe had been sick on and off. What we assumed was influenza and possible pneumonia brought us to urgent care. The doctor didn't hear anything too alarming with Cloe's lungs but decided to give her a nebulizer and right before we left she decided to ordered a chest x-ray just because. 20 mins later we received a call from clinic letting us know the x-ray showed a large mass in Cloe's chest and they wanted us to go to Children's Hospital as soon as possible. 

Craig was still pretty sick with influenza, so my parents and I packed up and headed to the hospital with Cloe. After what seemed like forever and many many tests, scans, biopsy's and spending almost her entire winter break in the hospital, on December 27th, 2019 Cloe was officially diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's (NH) T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma. 

Cloe was a true warrior through it all. CT scans, MRI's, port placement surgery, Sternotomy and Thymectomy, blood transfusions, ER visits, Hospital stays, neuropathy, CMV infection, so many pokes, weight gain from fluid retention, weight loss, uncontrollable mood changes from steroids, we could go on and on. May 4th, 2022 Cloe did it! She finished treatment and took her last chemo pill! 

Through it all we have been so blessed to have wonderful friends, neighbors, family, and community support helping us along the way. September 2020 our neighbors and friends wanted to help our family by putting together the 1st Brave Like Cloe Golf Benefit. Our hope was to continue the tradition and pay it forward once our family was in a better place with Cloe's Cancer Journey. We plan to continue to host the Brave Like Cloe Golf Benefit to support local families that have been placed on their own Childhood Cancer Journey. We hope to provide them with much needed love and support as they navigate this new unknown path they have been faced with.