Lynn awoke screaming with stomach pains one morning shortly after her second birthday. The pain was so intense that she could not stand up to get out of bed. Her parents, Donald and Linda, took her to her regular pediatrician and were given antibiotics for a bladder infection. Three days later when the pain had not subsided, they took her to Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital where her liver and stomach were found to be enlarged. She was diagnosed with leukemia and immediately began chemotherapy. During her first year of treatment, she encountered some unexpected setbacks. Lynn came down with chicken pox and had difficulties due to a rare metal allergy. Her second year of treatment went very well and Lynn completed her weekly chemotherapy last March. Her positive attitude helped her and her family through the two and a half years of treatment. She loves her doctors and nurses at the Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital because she thinks they are funny. Lynn always said when she was fighting her leukemia that she was going to "Kick the cancer's butt!" She is doing fine now and you would never know she was ever sick.