My Leukemia Story I was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in 1998 when I was 37.  My career was growing at the time.  My first daughter had been born a few years earlier.  My next two children came in 1999 and then in 2000.   The leukemia diagnosis was a shock to me.  There is no history of cancer in either my parent’s families.  My …