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
The first two pictures are of Kim, before she had her breathing tube removed. The third is from right after she had it out, and was resting. Then we have another picture of our room at the B&B, and a couple family pics with Kim. Last is a picture of one of the therapy dogs who Kim loves to have visit- Elliot is a half poodle, half lab, and total sweetheart.
ReplyDeleteOh, and the fourth picture is of Kim playing connect four with her physical therapist. This was to see how her hand-eye coordination is. She also sat in a wheelchair for a little while, and threw a beach ball around. She hasn't done much since then, her therapy today was just to sit in a reclining chair for a while.
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