When Cris Kyriakidis woke up one morning in 2000, it was a day like any other—until she entered her 2-year-old daughter Lauren’s bedroom. Cris found Lauren lying in blood-soaked sheets, her little body covered in bruises.

“It looked like Lauren had been thrown out of a window, or severely beaten,” Cris recalls, evoking the painful images associated with that horrific moment.

Frightened and confused, Cris and her husband Otto called their family pediatrician, Dr. Michael Shannon, who immediately cleared his schedule to see Lauren. As soon as he took one look at Lauren, he personally walked her down to the lab for blood work and made arrangements for Lauren to be admitted to CHOC Children’s at Mission Hospital.

There, the staff performed additional blood tests and discovered Lauren’s platelet count was almost non-...
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