Kimberly

Kim was diagnosed with AML Leukemia on July 22, 2009, just after she finished high school. She'd been feeling well, just showing a few bruises when she went to Primary Childrens Medical Center for a heart surgery to fix a relatively minor condition she's had since she was born. A blood test before the surgery showed that her blood had been completely taken over by the cancer. They admitted her that day and began treatment right away. She went through five long rounds of chemotherapy, doing relatively well, with the exception of one infection that led to a very scary stay in the Pediatric ICU. She spent almost all of that time in the hospital, with just a few breaks to go home. By the end of March 2010 she was allowed to go home for good- officially in remission! She was so excited to finally go to USU Fall semester, and got strait A's in all of her classes! Psychology, Humanities, Family Finance and ANATOMY. Not a week after finals, at a regular check up at PCMC, her blood tests showed that her cancer was back. And thus began round two- Kim's goal was to make it to a bone marrow transplant. We had found a donor, so all that was left was to get her in remission once more. After three rounds of chemotherapy, her body was no longer strong enough to keep fighting, no matter that her spirit was. She will always be with us. 7:48 pm, March 31, 2011

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Back in the ICS

Kim has been moved out of the Surgical unit and back to the ImmunoCompromised ward. She doesn't Need to be there yet, as her counts are actually higher than they've been since she was diagnosed. Her chemo hasn't started to kill cells yet (her ANC is over 900, for those of you who have been following.) But once they do start to go down again, this is where she will need to be. For those of you who may have been worried about seeing her because of her low immunity- now would be the time to go. She's mostly feeling bored having to be back in the hospital. But soon she'll be sick again... and so on.
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