My Parents Abandoned Me At The Hospital At 13 R…

my diagnosis to my parents. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Well, they called it the most common type of childhood cancer, he said, but also one of the most treatable. With aggressive chemotherapy, my survival rate was around 85 to 90%. Good odds, he kept saying. Really good odds.

My mother, Linda, sat in the plastic chair by the window, staring at a continue reading …