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BY HANNAH GILL
n January of this year, Maddix Small got sick and spent three days in the hospital in Wichita, Kansas. The fourteen-year-old from Neodesha, Kansas had two secondary infections from a virus, and when he was discharged from the hospital, he was told that if he got sick at all before his appointment at Children’s Mercy in Kansas City, he would need to be on medication because they weren’t sure if the infection could come back or not. That wasn’t a big deal, at least, it wasn’t until COVID-19.
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Maddix’s appointment at Children’s
“They know he has an immunode-
Mercy was supposed to be on March 23,
ficiency, they don’t think its leukemia
the same day of the “stay at home” or-
based on early bloodwork, but they don’t
der in Kansas and all appointments were
know what it is or how to handle it,” says
canceled, so until the Smalls get some
his mother, Nicole. “To say he’s leaving
answers, Maddix doesn’t leave the house
the farm or ranch now? No, we’re being
much, except to help feed and do chores.
super protective of him.”
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