First I would like to say thank you for taking time to read Violeta’s story. Violeta is the youngest of a family of 8. She is the boss of our house. Almost 2wks after her birthday a small protrusion appeared in her vagina area. Urgent care nor the emergency were able to diagnose her with what was going on due to the fact that it had gone back inside. After a couple of weeks that same protrusion appeared again and bigger by this I (mom) had already appointments set up for her but nothing near close to soon. Took her to her primary doctor who seen my stress and anxiety that Violeta was not ok. First it was ultrasound, then MRI and both test results came back of a mass like along with other big words that at that moment I didn’t understand much. Violeta looked fine if you laid eyes on her she was(is) a happy baby. Spoke to gynecology which I couldn’t wait for an Official response so I told them I had been looking up the tests results of everything and I had an idea of what was going on but I still didn’t dare to say it out loud because part of me wanted to wait for someone to just say no it’s something easy can be removed with a simple surgery then all good. Sadly that wasn’t the case. We then had her biopsy which confirmed everything. She was diagnosed with Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma. Shorter words a cancer that is so rare only a year there is a maximum of 350 people are diagnosed with it. Now Violeta is in chemotherapy to shrink her cancer. We have a long journey ahead of us. Thankfully this type of cancer is curable.  Thank you for supporting me and the more than 300,000 kids worldwide who will be diagnosed with cancer this year. By sharing the gifts of your time, talent and money with the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, you're supporting research to give all kids with cancer a better chance for a cure.