AML - less than 48 hours from diagnosis to death - I’m heartbroken
Today is the one month anniversary of my 24 year-old daughter’s death. I took her to the doctor on a Tuesday thinking she had a sinus infection. She was sent by ambulance to the hospital, and then sent to ICU with a diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. She passed away less than 48 hours later. I’m devastated and confused. When you put all the symptoms together, it makes sense, but it was so easy to attribute the night sweats to new birth control, bruising to heredity (as I bruise easily), and knee pain to walking up and down our stairs. I’m so mad at myself for not insisting she went to the doctor sooner.
I have looked it up, and most people do not pass this quickly from it, but I can happen fast…just not this fast. I wish I had had more time. More time with her, more time to fight it.
I’m so broken hearted and lost.