One evening, 26-year-old Joanna Williams put her normally playful and happy 3-year-old daughter, Sharelle, to bed. The next morning, Joanna awoke to find something terribly wrong. “[Sharelle] was very pale and her lips were blue and soon after, she developed a pretty drastic nose bleed [that] wouldn’t stop when I pinched her nose. She also had…a pin-prick rash…[and was] floppy and unresponsive.” The family rushed Sharelle to the hospital and received a startling diagnosis: leukemia.
Read more about this Sharelle’s journey with leukemia at PatientWorthy.com here.
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Last modified: February 3, 2025
