Amy | Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
In December 2015, our son, William, started complaining of leg/knee pain. William had always been an active boy, so we figured that he must have just hurt himself doing something physical. After a few days of the pain continuing, my husband thought that maybe it was “growing pains.” We continued to keep an eye on it but weren’t too concerned at this point. By the end of the week, I called our pediatrician for an appointment. William had an exam and bloodwork done. He was also given antibiotics. I got a phone call the next day and was told that William had a viral infection and that the muscle pain was secondary to the infection. If he wasn’t improving within two days, I was to call back. William hadn’t improved, so I called the pediatrician back. At this point, I was told that they wanted to run bloodwork on William again that day and also wanted him seen by an orthopedist. We stopped to have blood drawn on our way to the orthopedic office later that day. William had been in decent spi