Xane had to delay his routine childhood vaccines. Doctors knew something was wrong when he came in for a sick visit. He’d had a fever for a few days, but on this day, he woke up with a fever, swollen glands, and his coloring was off. Pediatricians found that he also had an enlarged spleen and liver. Xane was sent to Huntsville Hospital for Women and Children. He was diagnosed that same day with Leukemia. Xane was in Memphis at St. Jude’s Hospital that night. Fast forward, after two years of chemotherapy, he was cancer-free. However, Xane and his siblings still couldn’t get their childhood vaccines to fight against illnesses like polio, rubella, mumps, and measles. These vaccines are live viruses and couldn’t be introduced to Xane’s still-compromised immune system. Xane and his two sisters were finally able to get those vaccines. Today, Xane is active and lives a normal healthy life.