HELP BE APART OF HIS FIGHT! This is MAX LEONIDAS. On Feb.7th 2020 he was diagnosed with. (ALL) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Max is our world and This little smiling face and hugs make us smile each and every day. I Thank God every single day for giving me the chance to mother such a sweet, loving little guy.  Our little man got sick, which I thought might be a sinus infection or a cold and After me taking him back to the dr 3 times and finally getting some tests done, we found out that he had influenza B. After about 8 hours we were woken up in the middle of the night by a knock at the door by police who had Max's doctor on thr phone telling us our little guy has leukemia.  After the initial shock and devastating news, everyone keeps telling us "its going to be a long road and you need to let people help". So this is us sucking up our pride for our baby boy, not even knowing yet what is to come. I just know that we will do what ever It takes to help our baby get thru this as smoothly as possible. We ask for all prayers and know that God has control!   Max is so full of life and laughter. Being able to watch him experience all of lifes firsts, warms our hearts. At 3 years old, life should not have to be so hard!!!   I don't feel like he has been really sick alot. Just your normal cold here and there. Hasn't never even had the stomach flu yet. Its winter and everyone has been sick, He had some sneezing going on, a little cough here and there. Nothing really bad. So I set him up an appointment for a dr check up. but his sneezing kept producing a little bit of blood streeks each time and he would say owWee, pointing to his nose. So, I started thinking maybe he has a sinus infection. He started to have a fever on weds so I kept him home from school. We took him to the emergency room just for them to tell us "it's a virus going around and he is probably just really dry. Give him tylonal for his fever and take him to the dr appointment you made. He should be feeling better in a couple days". Well, that night his fever would only stay gone for maybe 30 mins before it would came back. I called his dr and told the nurse about the emergency room visit and asked to get him in that same day. We arrived and had to see a different dr due to max's dr not being in that day. He had the bloody nose when he sneezes, he looked weak, 103 temp, little red speckles in his ears and thru out his body. They swobed his nose and took blood for tests. His nose swob came back positive for influenza B And the dr sent us home saying once the blood work comes back she would call with the results. We went home and went on about our day not hearing anything from the dr I assumed everything must be ok. We went to bed like any other night and around 11 pm our older son woke us up and said the police are at the door. My husband went up stairs to see what's going on and I went to find my phone which I had not charged and turned out to be dead. My husband comes rushing down stairs to tell me that the dr had been trying to get a hold of us for an hour. I turned on my phone and all I hear is text after text after text come across my phone. This is Dr xXxX, please call me, it's an emergency, Max has acute lukemia. I rush up stairs and the police had the Dr on the phone, telling my husband that Max needs a blood transfusion and we must take him back to the hospital now, they already know your coming and they are waiting. The feeling of "this isn't real, the tests must be wrong, Someone didn't do something right, all came over us. The police escorted us thru traffic, blocking off streets so we could get to the hospital as fast as we could.   So to anyone (mothers and fathers) who feel like your baby is sick and your not getting the right answers, don't stop asking questions just because the first person tells you no, everything is fine. Sometimes/alot of times we ARE just a number and if it wasn't for the Dr and police being so persistent on reaching out to us with the blood test results, we never would of known how sick our little boy was.   I just have to say, that at this point, the world becomes very small and the stresses of every day to day life become so unimportant. Hold your loved ones close!!   Our little guy is only 3 years old, and all I want is to be able to see him grow up and play baseball/football or what ever he likes to do, to see him have fun and enjoy life.    We would like to ask for everyone's prayers and strength, to heal our sweet little love!                          MOMMY & DADDY                               LOVES YOU                  MAX LEONIDAS PERALES