What should have been an exciting milestone of kindergarten turned into a medical crisis for Aida Cordeau, leading to a leukemia diagnosis that would transform not just her life, but inspire her to use her experience to encourage others.

The first signs that something was wrong came when Aida’s father noticed his daughter wasn’t herself.

“There’s something wrong with her. She’s not OK,” he urgently told his wife in a phone call that would mark the beginning of their cancer journey.

It was Aida’s mother’s careful attention to detail that proved crucial — spotting an unusually low white blood cell count in her daughter’s test results. This observation led doctors to the devastating leukemia diagnosis.

“When he came in, he gave the news to us very gently,” Brian Cordeau, Aida’s father, re

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