She Has Rhabdo what?

I am not going to drag out all the medical torture that this child had to endure, but I will tell you the important thing. The biopsy came back as rhabdomyosarcoma, it was a form of muscle cancer. Only hers started in the bone. Only 9 documented cases and no survivors. They had informed me if her leg broke at the tumor site, she would need an amputation because the cancer would spread and it did. But they never told me. I found out when I took her to see a radiation specialist. That's when they gave her 6 month max and cut off her leg. But the jerk that did the surgery didn't have clean margins, he left just a few cancer cells, they could be radiated out. Yeah right, it came back, fast. So I fired them. I needed to find a doctor a little more optimistic. So I went to see Dr. Paul Derderian, a very smart man who was an angel in disguise and Courtney would be his 1st pediatric cancer patient. He sent us to see an orthopedic oncologist, Dr. Irwin, he was straight and to the point. The remaining part of her leg, which was about 6 inches of thigh, had to be removed at the hip socket. So it was, they got clean margins and she did pretty good, that is until the pain came back, this time in her butt. After more test, which included sticking a very long needle into her butt cheek all the way to her pelvic bone unsedated. It was determined she needed a hemi-pelvectomy. This required removing 1/2 her pubic bone, hip and ishcium (butt bone). So they did.
 I know I compress a very long year into a very short paragraph, but this was time in my life that I really questioned myself. I had to be at the hospital so much that I was so afraid my kids at home were feeling very neglected. And to make matters worse, I was sure Courtney hated me, After all here she was this little girl with a sore leg. She came to live with us and right away I let people stick needles into her, give her medicine that made her sick, her hair fell out and the worst of all I let them cut her leg off. How's does one little child comprehend, I did what I did because I loved her.  And you know the whole time she went through everything, she always smiled. The same smile she had on her face the first day she came here.
After all the treatments were done, the uncle decided it was best for the girls to stay right here with us. So along with Keeley and Logan, the adoption of Nicole and Courtney were in the works.