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

Friday, December 18, 2009

Not much is new. I've been with Kim all night, and she still has a high fever and a hard time breathing. They keep changing the machine she's on to try and make it easier. She's been getting up to 80+ breaths per minute.
She hasn't really been able to fall asleep tonight... just drifts in and out, but is rarely ever really awake, either.
I think I mentioned before that when the shift changes from day to night, and vs vrsa, they have us leave for that hour (between 7 and 8 am or pm.) That is probably when I will head back to the hotel and give the car to mom, so she can come up and spend the day with Kim... and hopefully I won't sleep too long, so we can all three spend some time together when I wake up.
Well, now that I've bored you with probably a few too many details (I'm pretty tired at this point, so forgive my rambling) I just wanted to say that one thing I've thought about when she's struggling between breaths (not right now- she's doing okay right now) is that I'm sort of praying over each one... and so are all of you. And for as many breaths as she needs to take, she's probably got enough prayers to cover her.
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