""It progressed over a two-week period to where she didn't even really want to walk and ended up wanting to get carried around," dad Justin Ailinger, 40, of Buffalo, New York, tells TODAY.com. "We were at a birthday party (and) they had some roller skating and she didn't want to participate.""
""I got a call back saying, 'You need to go to the hospital right away because the results were alarming,'" Ailinger recalls."
""Once (the oncologist) introduced herself, that pretty much set up all the triggers in our head of what was about to happen and the path we were going to be heading down," he says. "That kicked off the whole journey we've been on the last year and a half.""
Bryn Ailinger, a four-year-old who loved dancing and gymnastics, began complaining of leg pain in April 2024. Over two weeks the pain progressed until she resisted walking and wanted to be carried. A pediatrician ordered bloodwork and alerted the family to alarming results, prompting an emergency hospital visit. Medical teams including an oncologist evaluated Bryn, and doctors admitted her immediately, placing a port so chemotherapy could begin right away. The diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia marked the start of an ongoing treatment journey that has affected the family deeply over the following year and a half.
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