At 5 years old, my family's life changed forever. While at the time I was truly too young to fully grasp the severity of the situation, I knew something was wrong when my mom told me that we needed to go to the hospital to see my cousin, Lexi. I remember running down the long corridors of the hospital and arriving at a hospital room to see my beautiful cousin hooked up to tons of machines with a frightened expression on her face. My parents took the time to explain to me that Lexi had been diagnosed with leukemia, a disease that I came to learn would test her strength, steal her beautiful curly locks, and, after a difficult course of treatment, a disease she would come to kick the crap out of.