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

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Hey everyone- I just wanted to let you know that Kim is still not home yet, and we still don't know when it will be. She had a pretty high fever yesterday, and we still don't know why. (For a little while, we thought there might be something wrong with the thermometer they were using on her! But they checked it against another, and still keep finding her toasty.)
As a testament to her still-weak state, yesterday she also had a moment of vertigo, and fell and smacked her head on the wall. She has a couple of nice goose-eggs, but nothing worse. (Knowing Kim, I'm really surprised they haven't found anything yet for as many times as they've scanned her head...)
As the weather is finally clearing up a bit in Cache Valley, I'm really hoping that she'll be able to come home ASAP! (A red burn day wouldn't have been very fun for her, especially because our house is mostly heated by a wood burning stove, which we can't use on those days.) So lets keep our fingers crossed... I know my 2010 calendar is somewhere in that pile of presents, and I'd really like to start using it!
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