Evy Strong- Overcoming Leukemia
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Hi- we are the family of Laurel & Dominique Flipping, amazing parents of 4 beautiful children.
It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share this update regarding their second child, Evelyn, who is a loving, happy, energetic & caring 3-year-old.
On January 20th, after weeks of Evy expressing intense pain throughout her body & multiple doctor visits, Laurel, with her amazing “mama instincts” knew something was going on for Evy- and escalated her concerns, where bloodwork and a bone marrow biopsy were done & results came back, Evy was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)… and so this unfathomable journey begins.
We are creating this GoFundMe on behalf of the Flipping family, to offer financial help during this challenging time. Both Laurel & Nique will be stepping away from work to be with Evy during her month-long in-patient chemo at Dupont Nemours Children’s hospital in Delaware. They will then need to transition Evy home and prepare for the next portion of her cancer treatment, where she’ll need two and half years of out-patient chemo. This will require a lot of traveling back & forth from New Jersey to Delaware for treatments. They anticipate a significant amount of increased medical bills. All the while, they are still tending to their teenage daughter, toddler daughter & newborn son.
The Flipping family could use our help. Relieving them of financial pressures is a great way to help them focus on their time, energy & love on Evy’s treatment & recovery.
Your compassion & generosity is what makes our community so powerful. We know the Flipping family will be eternally grateful for any contribution made.
Below is the outlined story of Evy’s journey, as written by her mother, Laurel… Please read if you so wish:
From Laurel (Evy’s mother):
12/23/21 Evy came to our bed room at 4:00 AMsaying her legs hurt so bad she didn't want to walk anymore which was super alarming, however a couple time before this she'd complained of very minimal pains which we assumed were growing pains they were never anything she'd needed Motrin for. Just something she'd occasionally mention.. but this time was different.. I took Evy to the emergency room concerned and told them what was going on and she fell asleep shortly after getting some Motrin because she was so exhausted from crying. They did an X-ray of Evys belly and decided it appeared to be constipation. Since Evy was able to get up and walk around just a few hours later we were discharged and sent home to use some mirilax and rest.
1/5/22 Evy hasn't complained of any pain since 12/23 so things were going great until this day, suddenly Evy now has arm pains. I call Evys primary doctor set an appointment for a week away and gave her a little Motrin this time. She from this point has off and on pains when pressure is applied; picking her up under her arms to get on the potty, play time with dad/siblings, etc.. so I continue with Motrin once a day (that's all she needed) until our doctor visit.
1/12/22 we go to the doctors. They do a basic assessment and tell me she seems a little off but nothing too concerning. This is where I said the intense leg pains followed by intense arm pains in this time span is not normal so I'd like to do a little more this time around. The doctor proceeds to say "okay we can order some blood work for her and check labs to see if they're abnormal but it can be tough for a little one getting blood work". I said I don't care, I'm more concerned about her health we'll do the bloodwork.
1/13/22 We go to labcorp to have bloodwork done.
1/14/22 6:30 PM the doctor calls us saying Evy has suppressed bone marrow, anemia, & low white blood cells, they're concerned so they sent these labs for further looking at to a hematologist. My anxiety is up. He then tells me to order a PCR Covid test (if you go to your primary pediatrician with any possible Covid symptoms and they do not offer to do a Covid test at the office it's a red flag.) He tries to tell me he believes the bone marrow suppression he believes is from something viral. Which I thought was strange because she hasn't displayed any signs of having a cold. But anything is possible, right? So he says we'll repeat blood work in 2 weeks.
1/15/22 Evys skin is looking paler, mommy instincts are saying something is not okay. I call the same pediatrician and tell them and they assure me it's probably my anxiety she's fine and monitor her temp all night. Well how could she get a temp if I'm dousing her in pain meds?
1/17/22 Evys in pain all day I give Motrin every 6 hours and tell my husband I'm demanding another office visit in the morning.
1/18/22 I call the pediatrician office and tell them she needs to be seen again, something is not okay. We get a visit at 3:00 PM. I bring her in they do a basic assessment and tell me I need to take her home for another week and continue pain meds and they need me to wait this out because the timeline between blood work will help them figure out what's wrong. My response to this was “absolutely not, my daughter is not okay. I need you to forward her labs to the closest ER we are not going home without having more bloodwork done tonight or some other testing”. The doctor agrees to send existing labs to the closest ER and we go there to check in. They do bloodwork and immediately tell us something is not okay and it looks like it is Auto immune and we need to be transferred to a hospital more equipped to handle something like this. So now I'm scared.
We are transferred by ambulance to DuPont Nemours in DE. They immediately start more bloodwork in the ER and then shortly after admit us to a floor.
Once we were settled in on a floor around 12amthey told us they'd like Evy to have a bone marrow biopsy done in the morning first thing because they do not think it is from anything Viral..
1/19/22 we wake up and go downstairs at 9:00 AMfor the bone marrow biopsy. I stayed with Evy in sedation until she was all the way out.. I cried my eyes out the next 30 minutes waiting for her to be done wondering why this had to be happening to my baby.. was it naive to think I could create a big old happy family and nothing like cancer would ever happen to us?....
1/19/22 Evy’s introduced to a new life of morphine every 6 hours and constant pain that will just not go away, she is having a hard time walking, and moving around doing the day to day things we all take for granted, even while on the morphine.. she’s now back to peeing on herself whenever she feels like she's in too much pain to get up.. Doctors at this point are now using the word Leukemia very frequently, but need the bone marrow biopsy to confirm it 100%
1/20/22 Evy’s day is pretty similar to the day before.. Doctors confirm what they've already prepared us to hear.. the big C word our baby has Cancer.. Evy is diagnosed 100% with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia...
It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share this update regarding their second child, Evelyn, who is a loving, happy, energetic & caring 3-year-old.
On January 20th, after weeks of Evy expressing intense pain throughout her body & multiple doctor visits, Laurel, with her amazing “mama instincts” knew something was going on for Evy- and escalated her concerns, where bloodwork and a bone marrow biopsy were done & results came back, Evy was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)… and so this unfathomable journey begins.
We are creating this GoFundMe on behalf of the Flipping family, to offer financial help during this challenging time. Both Laurel & Nique will be stepping away from work to be with Evy during her month-long in-patient chemo at Dupont Nemours Children’s hospital in Delaware. They will then need to transition Evy home and prepare for the next portion of her cancer treatment, where she’ll need two and half years of out-patient chemo. This will require a lot of traveling back & forth from New Jersey to Delaware for treatments. They anticipate a significant amount of increased medical bills. All the while, they are still tending to their teenage daughter, toddler daughter & newborn son.
The Flipping family could use our help. Relieving them of financial pressures is a great way to help them focus on their time, energy & love on Evy’s treatment & recovery.
Your compassion & generosity is what makes our community so powerful. We know the Flipping family will be eternally grateful for any contribution made.
Below is the outlined story of Evy’s journey, as written by her mother, Laurel… Please read if you so wish:
From Laurel (Evy’s mother):
12/23/21 Evy came to our bed room at 4:00 AMsaying her legs hurt so bad she didn't want to walk anymore which was super alarming, however a couple time before this she'd complained of very minimal pains which we assumed were growing pains they were never anything she'd needed Motrin for. Just something she'd occasionally mention.. but this time was different.. I took Evy to the emergency room concerned and told them what was going on and she fell asleep shortly after getting some Motrin because she was so exhausted from crying. They did an X-ray of Evys belly and decided it appeared to be constipation. Since Evy was able to get up and walk around just a few hours later we were discharged and sent home to use some mirilax and rest.
1/5/22 Evy hasn't complained of any pain since 12/23 so things were going great until this day, suddenly Evy now has arm pains. I call Evys primary doctor set an appointment for a week away and gave her a little Motrin this time. She from this point has off and on pains when pressure is applied; picking her up under her arms to get on the potty, play time with dad/siblings, etc.. so I continue with Motrin once a day (that's all she needed) until our doctor visit.
1/12/22 we go to the doctors. They do a basic assessment and tell me she seems a little off but nothing too concerning. This is where I said the intense leg pains followed by intense arm pains in this time span is not normal so I'd like to do a little more this time around. The doctor proceeds to say "okay we can order some blood work for her and check labs to see if they're abnormal but it can be tough for a little one getting blood work". I said I don't care, I'm more concerned about her health we'll do the bloodwork.
1/13/22 We go to labcorp to have bloodwork done.
1/14/22 6:30 PM the doctor calls us saying Evy has suppressed bone marrow, anemia, & low white blood cells, they're concerned so they sent these labs for further looking at to a hematologist. My anxiety is up. He then tells me to order a PCR Covid test (if you go to your primary pediatrician with any possible Covid symptoms and they do not offer to do a Covid test at the office it's a red flag.) He tries to tell me he believes the bone marrow suppression he believes is from something viral. Which I thought was strange because she hasn't displayed any signs of having a cold. But anything is possible, right? So he says we'll repeat blood work in 2 weeks.
1/15/22 Evys skin is looking paler, mommy instincts are saying something is not okay. I call the same pediatrician and tell them and they assure me it's probably my anxiety she's fine and monitor her temp all night. Well how could she get a temp if I'm dousing her in pain meds?
1/17/22 Evys in pain all day I give Motrin every 6 hours and tell my husband I'm demanding another office visit in the morning.
1/18/22 I call the pediatrician office and tell them she needs to be seen again, something is not okay. We get a visit at 3:00 PM. I bring her in they do a basic assessment and tell me I need to take her home for another week and continue pain meds and they need me to wait this out because the timeline between blood work will help them figure out what's wrong. My response to this was “absolutely not, my daughter is not okay. I need you to forward her labs to the closest ER we are not going home without having more bloodwork done tonight or some other testing”. The doctor agrees to send existing labs to the closest ER and we go there to check in. They do bloodwork and immediately tell us something is not okay and it looks like it is Auto immune and we need to be transferred to a hospital more equipped to handle something like this. So now I'm scared.
We are transferred by ambulance to DuPont Nemours in DE. They immediately start more bloodwork in the ER and then shortly after admit us to a floor.
Once we were settled in on a floor around 12amthey told us they'd like Evy to have a bone marrow biopsy done in the morning first thing because they do not think it is from anything Viral..
1/19/22 we wake up and go downstairs at 9:00 AMfor the bone marrow biopsy. I stayed with Evy in sedation until she was all the way out.. I cried my eyes out the next 30 minutes waiting for her to be done wondering why this had to be happening to my baby.. was it naive to think I could create a big old happy family and nothing like cancer would ever happen to us?....
1/19/22 Evy’s introduced to a new life of morphine every 6 hours and constant pain that will just not go away, she is having a hard time walking, and moving around doing the day to day things we all take for granted, even while on the morphine.. she’s now back to peeing on herself whenever she feels like she's in too much pain to get up.. Doctors at this point are now using the word Leukemia very frequently, but need the bone marrow biopsy to confirm it 100%
1/20/22 Evy’s day is pretty similar to the day before.. Doctors confirm what they've already prepared us to hear.. the big C word our baby has Cancer.. Evy is diagnosed 100% with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia...
Organizer and beneficiary
Angela Hubbs
Organizer
Pemberton, NJ
Laurel Flipping
Beneficiary