The Shepard Case Study

The Shepard’s family started their biggest battle as a family. Their son Maddox was just two and he had been dealing with fevers and bruising but they thought this was just a cause of getting sick on the playground. However, the family went to visit Grandma Shepard and when she saw little two year old Maddox all pale, he tired, wouldn’t eat, and got a fever again. Grandma Shepard knew it was time to take him to the emergency room.
Maddox after getting tested he was anemic with low blood counts, and was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia which is a type of cancer of the blood and bone marrow and that the disease progresses rapidly and creates immature blood cells, rather than mature ones. He was immediately was put into isolation and start his chemotherapy treatments.
Then Brad and Geri Maddox parents were thinking about having another kid once Maddox’s was on the rode of recover but they find a lump in Geri breast and it was a tumor. So No Geri had to start chemotherapy with her son. Brad Took care of them both and was working to pay for the medical expensive. It all paid off in the end, they stayed strong and both beat cancer.
Not only was it amazing to see a two year old after three years beat cancer or a strong mom who did not let her kids know her struggle but the dad brad what he did for his family never giving up and driving to push them all. One of the downsides of this was Maddox’s sisters she felt abandoned by her family because she couldn’t see her brother and her mom was distant, and her dad was helping both of them so the daughter took the back seat. Now she is doing better and trusting so that goes to show timing can fix a lot of