At the age of four, Bri was diagnosed with lupus. So when she became extremely tired and pale three years later, we attributed it to her lupus. But she began to bruise easier and was more fatigued than usual. Her doctors decided to do a spinal aspirate, but we were confident that it would come back negative as the previous one three years prior. We were wrong. Our fears then turned into nightmare when we were given the diagnosis that Bri has JMML, a rare form of leukemia with a 50% survival rate, even with a bone marrow transplant. We were devastated. But there was a silver lining with our story. Our son Nicholas was a 10/10 match as a bone marrow donor. It was bittersweet to say the least. There was no time to even grieve. Everything happened so quickly. Nicholas harvested for stem cells on February 14, 2017, and Bri received her brother’s cells the following day. Fast forward a year later, and we are blessed and happy to say Bri is in full remission and is living a very happy life. She’s back in school where she picked up where she left off. During this whole ordeal, she was the one who gave us all strength. She is the true hero of our story. She is little, but she is fierce.