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Adeline Lovell, a precious four-year-old girl from Clear Lake, was diagnosed with high-risk B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on July 6, 2022. Adeline’s illness was deemed “high-risk” due to her very high White Blood Cell count at the time of diagnosis. Adeline is a patient of the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital and is currently in the Consolidation Phase of treatment.

Adeline travels to Iowa City each week to undergo chemotherapy infusions via her central line port-a-cath, lumbar punctures, and blood and platelet transfusions as needed. Between trips to the hospital, she also maintains an oral and injection-based chemotherapy regimen at home. At the end of Consolidation in mid-October, Adeline will have a bone marrow biopsy to test the treatment’s effectiveness. Her family and friends pray that the results would show that she is in remission. The next 4-7 months of treatment will continue to be intense. Weekly trips to the University of Iowa SFCH will continue, and several multi-day inpatient stays are on the schedule, as well. If all goes well, Adeline will enter the Maintenance Phase of treatment. Maintenance will involve continued daily oral chemotherapy at home, but trips to the hospital for chemo infusions will reduce to monthly and then quarterly. In all, Adeline’s treatment will last approximately 2.5 years, with several years of close monitoring thereafter.

Adeline loves to play at the park, swim, dance, create art, do puzzles, play with her toys, and read books with her parents. More than anything, though, she loves to play with her friends and meet new people. She is a true “people-person,” and her beautiful, bright spirit has not been dampened by her illness. Adeline enjoys waving to her friends at the hospital while watching Iowa Hawkeye football on TV, especially her friend, Walker, whom she met during her initial inpatient stay after diagnosis. She is excited to attend a Hawkeye football game in person someday. Adeline is sweet, fun, smart, and spunky; she is loving and kind, but she is also fierce. Her doctors often remark at her fighting spirit, with one saying that “she is a feisty young woman” after a particularly difficult period in the hospital. Adeline faces challenges each day, from battling nausea and tiredness to having to take her medications or get “poked,” but each time she encounters something difficult, she rises to the occasion. She is reminded that each time she is scared of something but does it anyway, her courage grows. She is being forged by adversity and gaining determination, resiliency, and mental toughness that she will take with her for the rest of her life. Adeline and her family are choosing to lean into James 1:2-4. Adeline has an army of prayer warriors, family, friends, doctors, and nurses who care deeply for her and support her and her family in so many ways. She and her family are forever grateful for everyone who has surrounded her with love. Adeline faces a long road ahead, but her Father in Heaven loves her and has wonderful plans for her. This experience has already amplified Adeline’s walk and the impact God has in the world through her. Her family can’t wait to see what else God does through this incredible little girl.

Adeline is the daughter of Chris and Morgan Lovell and has a baby brother, Charles.