Little Elise is a the sweetest, most loving child. She tells her family she loves them every single day and comforts them with a little pat on the back as they hold her. She loves to snuggle up to them when she sleeps, providing them with the consolation they need as they witness their little girl navigate the cards she’s been dealt.

After a series of having constant fevers, being rushed to an urgent care, and getting tested for COVID-19, two-year-old Elise felt even more lethargic and appeared very pale. Her family was prompted to take her to the pediatrician the next morning where doctors performed some blood tests to send to the lab for immediate results.
“Two hours later, we received the scariest call of our lives,” Elise’s mother Randi said. “We rushed her to the emergency room … They re-ran tests and confirmed her diagnosis.” It was leukemia.

Elise and her family spent two weeks in the hospital getting her initial treatment started. Even after returning home, though, they were back a week later to remedy Elise’s body from the many side effects it was facing from the treatment. This resulted in several month-long stays in the hospital and traveling back and forth to the clinic for treatment anywhere from every other week to three times a week otherwise. The medical team experimented in all different ways, looking for the best way to get her to take the daily chemotherapy medications, but it put a strain on her little body through all the punctures and changes it had to undergo.