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Patient Stories
Monica Kreber
Dave Kreber was playing golf with business associates when he received the news.
"I got paged at the clubhouse and it said to call (my wife) Sally. She said 'Dave, you're not going to believe this but Monica has leukemia. I need you to come home immediately,'" he recalls. "I was standing there with a cell phone next to a tree, and I fell down on my knees and I said 'She's has what?' "
After less than a week experiencing a low-grade fever, 7-year-old Monica was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common form of leukemia afflicting children. Fortunately, it is also one of the most curable types of the disease.
That wasn't always the case. Just a few decades ago, a diagnosis of lymphoblastic leukemia would have meant almost certain death. Things are different today, thanks to medical research and our work at MUSC Children's Hospital.
Curing Monica took three years of chemotherapy, hundreds of nights in the hospital and a dedicated team of MUSC clinicians. Today, Monica today is once again a healthy child with excellent prospects for a normal, leukemia-free life.
"We owe thanks to so many amazing people, and we realize Monica owes her life to the progress available through medical research and the doctors who know how to use it," says Dave. "It is that knowledge that we lean upon today as we find ourselves back at MUSC Children's Hospital fighting another battle, this time for our son Zach, who has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. Once again, medical research has provided us with a great deal of hope for a full recovery in the not-too-distant future."
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