McKenna Beckstead

My name is McKenna Beckstead I was 13 1/2 when I found out I had cancer.
I couldn't go to public school, which i was going to start at the time instead of private school. (going to 8th grade) and i was stuck at home a lot of the time. when i saw friends it was because they came to visit me so I didn't go out much. I got to get the chance to get closer to my family (mainly my mom, because we used to fight all the time and i had a bad relationship with her, but now we're close) I got to find out who my true friends were and who cared about me the most (which was my friend Lauren Christiansen) I had ALL Leukemia.....
It affected my family because they were really scared at first for the first few weeks that I would die. Also a lot of the attention was centered on me and my siblings got a little jealous at times. Our family got closer because we spent a lot of time together because I was always stuck at home and my mom and dad didn't go on dates that much for a long time (but now they do again) because I was throwing up a lot and they didn't want to leave me home.
my outlook on life now is more positive because I know that things could always be worse and especially for volleyball when we're working out I know that it's painful right now but I can get through it.
*also one of the hardest parts was when I lost my hair and that was devastating. It made me feel really ugly and i couldn't stand looking in the mirror for the longest time. I lost it when I was almost done with the hair loss drugs(the last week) and thought that I really wasn't going to loose my hair so it made me so sad when I did:( it's still kinda short now, so still going through that process...