In honor of childhood cancer awareness month, we asked one mother to share her son’s diagnosis story. Our second parent guest post is written by Nicole Ziraldo Wilson. This is Mason’s story. *************** Mason Jude Wilson was born on August 24th, 2013. He came into the world a fighter. Prenatally, we had found out that …
Did you know that children with Down syndrome are twenty times more likely to develop leukemia? According to a recent Down Syndrome World publication (via Global Down Syndrome Foundation), children with Down syndrome have an increased likelihood of developing acute lymphoblastic leukemia than that of their typically developing peers. A sobering statistic for parents whose …