About Lucy Goose

Lucy Selah- "Goose"- was born on November 4, 2011. She has 3 older siblings; Elli, Zeke and Zoee and a baby brother, Ike. When she was 10 days old, her newborn screen came back positive for a metabolic disorder- MCAD. It was an easily contained disorder and she was capable of living a perfectly healthy life. In April of 2014 she began to constantly eat ice, suck on rocks, easily bruise, and was becoming very pale- losing color in her lips and gums. After a blood test that we had hoped would confirm iron-deficient anemia failed we returned to our naturopath to get another lab order. The day before Lucy had caught a stomach bug. With history as a "difficult stick" we decided it was best to head to Phoenix Children's Hospital to have the blood test done and an IV given to provide her body the calories it needed to avoid trouble with her MCAD from the vomiting. Little did we know that our lives were about to change. Instead of anemia she was diagnosed with acute-lymphoblastic leukemia.