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

Thursday, November 12, 2009

No News is Good News?

Hi Everyone- sorry you haven't been hearing much from us lately! I'm stuck in Logan slaving away over my last month of school, and Kim is still at PCMC with mom. Not much has changed in the ... wow, has it been a week and a half already? ... since I last wrote.
Dad went down this last weekend to stay with Kim, and a couple of friends have been to see her, but when she's not feeling very sick and tired (which is most of the time) she's pretty bored out of her mind! This is getting to be a pretty hard part in her treatment. Things are going well on the large scale, but it's still a long road to get there, and this round has turned out to be the roughest one yet.
Her counts are being slow to come up, which isn't good for her hopes of coming home- as it is flu season and the doctors aren't likely to let her out until they are nice and high. She's still getting transfusions now and then, and has had some nausea off and on even as late as now. It seems like little problems keep cropping up- infections, nausea, rashes, etc- but the biggest problem this time have been hemeroids that have been hurting her.
Despite all of this, Kim is still amazingly enthusiastic, and is doing her best to cope with it all. Thank you all who have been staying in touch- helping to keep her distracted! Hopefully she won't have to stay too much longer before she gets a break at home, but we'll keep you posted until then.
Thanks everyone!
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