Posted on 02/19/2023 2:06:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
A local family is spreading the word about cancer in children and the signs to look out for after a 13-year-old girl died suddenly from undiagnosed leukemia.
We talk with the parents of Julia “Juju” Chavez, who says childhood cancer screening is now their mission.
Now her family is mourning her life that was gone so quickly, suddenly she is being rushed to the hospital and doctors are fighting to save her life.
“You don’t expect your full-of-life 13-year-old to just disappear in 12 hours,” Jenna Randall, Juju’s mother says.
Chavez, known by her family as Juju was a light in so many lives.
Randall says, “She was just a beautiful soul.”
But on Sunday she was taken by ambulance to the hospital where doctors told her family she had an advanced and rare form of leukemia, gone undetected for months.
“We didn’t even know what to think about leukemia, how? how,” Randall says.
She had internal bleeding in her brain and other organs, doctors did what they could, but she soon passed away around 1:15 a.m. Monday morning.
Ernie Randall, Juju’s grandfather, says. “Everything just happened so fast. I think that’s the brutal part about it is we didn’t get to say we’ll miss you or bye.”
The family knows Juju is in a better place.
“The lord did what he needed to do he must have needed a good angel because he got one,” her grandparents say.
Juju now is gone but those closest to her will never forget who she was.
“She’s so lively and bubbly, cheerful with that red hair just a little sassy just enough to make it cute, not talk back sassy just cute,” her grandmother, Lisa Randall says.
“She was perfect and she’ll stay perfect,” her mother says.
Moving forward the family says they’re looking to continue to spread Juju’s story and to spread awareness about some of the symptoms.
We talked to a pediatrician today who said if symptoms like fever, fatigue, headaches or bruising keep persisting, be open to your doctor and keep following up if symptoms don’t go away.
We talked with her family and they say Juju loved Pokemon, unicorns, and rainbows, she loved the bright colors which are why they encouraged everyone at her funeral today to wear pink or other colors of the rainbow.
Juju would sing and dance every opportunity she had, she was a straight A and B student who never got into any trouble, her mom says now the whole family just misses JuJu. A 13- year old who never met a stranger and wanted everyone to be her friend.
Jenna Randall, Julia’s mother, says, “Julia was a light in any room, she never knew a stranger she walked up to anybody and ‘hi how are you’, if you’re a woman ‘oh you’re so beautiful’ she just loved people, she was the first person to make friends with somebody, she saw somebody that was sitting alone or didn’t seem to have friends around she jumped into action and had to know them.”
We will have more on how the family is remembering Juju and what they’re looking to do moving forward to make sure they’ll never forget her.
>> died suddenly from undiagnosed leukemia.
very important to stitch in the “died suddenly” idiom... /sarc
the facts remain that “died suddenly” concerns sudden deaths precipitated by the vax on otherwise healthy children & young adults — those that DO NOT HAVE a non-existent or problematic medical history.
You’re carrying out a childish injustice to your otherwise meaningful medical/health posts. And you’re giving the impression of being a Pharma shill.
He is demonstrating the constant drum beat of the anti vaxx shills who demand agreement with their stance no matter how flawed or ridiculous it is.
Childhood leukemias are simply awful. They frequently present with acute leukemia crises and often at end stage. AML and ALL of this age group are well recognized and have zero to do with the vaccine as it was around well before the vaccine. It is offensive that when these parents who appear well versed in what happens talk about screening and you want to drag it to the vaccine demonstrates exactly what the meme suggests.
Believe what you need to but don’t require the rest of us to agree with the increasingly desperate attempts of the antivaxx crowd to go along with what is otherwise utter nonsense.
I wonder if they were on obamacare. Both my mother and my mother-in-law died of cancers that were undiagnosed for a year - mom from breast cancer and mil from lung cancer.
They were both on Group Health - known here in Washington state as Group Death. Group Health was taken over a few years ago by Kaiser Permanente.
Group Health had a lot of foreign-educated doctors who did not seem to give a lot of regard to women’s lives.
The Covid vaccines are not suspected of causing cancers. But they are suspected of causing cancers to accelerate. Was that what happened to this unfortunate child? Of course we have no evidence and don’t know.
When I was growing up the medical profession was by far the most trusted and respected one. I seriously doubt that you could say that now. Pretty soon I expect some country music star to have a hit song that goes “Mamas, don’t let you babies grow up to be doctors”.
So it’s a battle of the bands — the constant drumbeats?
I don’t need to believe in anything except my good Lord. The facts are good enough for me which are rarely forthcoming — especially by the likes of Pfizer which aimed to seal its studies & finding on its vax for 75 years. And you along with your medical FRiends seem to be okay with that — very much on the offense armed with ridicule, idiotic memes, and statistically irrelevant personal anecdotes. Not sure why it needs to be so contentious.
It’s a statistical fact that children and young adults had a minuscule case-fatality in the range of 0.001% to 0.02%. Data that was continuously reported by Johns Hopkins and the CDC. Yet the vax was forced upon them — horrifying.
To dismiss the possibility of vax-related injuries — which is the norm for the medical community — is grossly problematic. Hence my patronizing “cult” pejorative.
FRegards
This is the second time I have heard of this recently... kids dying from undiagnosed Leukemia.
On a personal note, Leukemia has been recently diagnosed in a young friend. Weird.
Usually the symptoms of acute leukemia are weakness and anemia and can be easily missed in a busy doctor's office unless they do a blood count
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