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

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Kim's Weekend

This weekend, Kim's friend Melissa stayed at the Hospital with her (Friday and Saturday night.) It's so hard to leave her, but she they had a really fun time together despite Kim feeling pretty awful with her stomach bug. And I think this was the first Sunday that Mom and Dad have been able to go to church together for quite a while.
Though the C-Diff (see last post) stomach bug that Kim has officially takes two weeks to treat (that's how I know she will be in the hospital for at least that long) her stomach doesn't hurt nearly so much. She had extremely painful cramps that even morphine wouldn't clear up for her. All they could really do is give her things that made her sleepy, so she wouldn't have to be awake for it.
Also, this weekend she started to get a slightly runny nose, and the doctors have been worried she might have somehow picked up a virus. But, she tested negative for that, thank goodness! Maybe she's just developing an alergy for hospitals ;)
Overall, I think she is through the worst of the chemo effects now, and will hopefully only feel better over the next couple of weeks until she is able to come home again for a while. (Lets hope that the marrow test she'll have before she goes back for round three shows her cancer percent to be at zero through and through!)
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