In July of last year, Makenna Letasky noticed her son La’Monte wasn’t acting quite like himself.

“I had taken him in to check his blood work to see if he was anemic and his levels came back not so good, so they ended up poking him in his arm rather than just the finger,” she said. “The next morning, we got the call that he did have leukemia.”

Letasky described the phone call she received that her toddler had cancer as “gut-wrenching.”

“(It’s) something you never thought you’d have to hear,” she said.

Next thing she knew, they were heading to Colorado, where they would spend the next 10 and a half months. During La’Monte’s treatments, he had six blood transfusions. One of the transfusions happened on his second birthday.

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