sat . 💔 A Little Girl’s Fight — and a Mother’s Fear No Parent Should Carry Alone
It started with exhaustion that wouldn’t go away.
Skin that looked too pale for a little girl.
Bloodwork followed.
Then came the words no parent is ever ready to hear: leukemia.
Amethyst was diagnosed in June. From that moment on, childhood disappeared — replaced by hospital rooms, chemotherapy schedules, and long days of isolation no child should know.
Her mom, Ariel, is a single mother in San Antonio. When Amethyst’s treatments began, waiting wasn’t an option. Ariel was forced to resign from her job to stay by her daughter’s side.
Then everything else unraveled.
Family support fell apart. They moved out of state for care, were told to leave, and came back to Texas. Now Ariel and her five children are couch surfing — holding onto the one thing that matters most: getting Amethyst to treatment.
Right now, stability doesn’t look like much.
It looks like a reliable vehicle.
A way to make it to appointments.
A way to keep showing up for chemo — no matter what else falls apart.
Ariel says her greatest fear isn’t the cancer itself.
It’s losing the ability to get her daughter the care that’s keeping her alive.
🙏 Please keep Amethyst and her family in your prayers.
Share her story so this family doesn’t feel invisible.
💬 And if you could say one thing to a mom trying to hold everything together — what would it be
