Liz Volker remembers playing on the floor with her 15-month-old son, Elliot, when she noticed something was off.
Elliot’s stomach had a hard lump in it, and was sticking out on his left side.
While odd, Volker and her husband, Zach, didn’t think too much of it.
“We had no idea anything was wrong at all,” Volker said.
A couple of appointment with doctors, who thought he might be constipated, did little to change their minds.
Pregnant with their second child, a girl, they went in for a obstetrician appointment, and their midwife noticed Elliot’s stomach.
She recommended Elliot get an ultrasound, if for no other reason to give them peace of mind.
Two hours after the ultrasound, Zach and Liz received the news – their son had cancer.
“It was devastating,” Liz Volker said. “You think they’re going to grow up and be healthy. You never think anything is going to happen – especially hearing that they’re going to have cancer.”
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