![]() Within minutes of being there, and drawing blood, they knew it was some form of leukemia,” Frank said. We took him over to AtlantiCare Urgent Care, he was negative for Covid and negative for strep throat, so they sent us to Virtua in Voorhees, where they have a little CHOP ER in there. We were thinking maybe it was mononucleosis or anemia, but then he ran a fever a couple days after we got the blood work. So we got a script for blood work and we got multiple Covid tests. We noticed he was lethargic, had a lack of appetite, and then we noticed some lymph nodes and bruising on his arms - and he couldn’t explain how he got those bruises. “He had a lingering cough for a little while in October and November. He was officially diagnosed in December with T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia and has been on chemotherapy treatments since then, and will be for at least the next two years. ![]() He was then transported to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where Frank and Tiffany got the news every parent dreads. Last fall, young Frankie was suffering from a persistent cough during his season with the Hammonton Hawks youth football team and so Frank and his wife, Tiffany - a radiology supervisor at AtlantiCare - decided to take their son to the emergency room. Frankie’s dad, Frank LaSasso IV, is a Hammonton High graduate who is now a teacher and assistant football and baseball coach in the Ocean City district.
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