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, January 15, 2010

On the 34th Day of Christmas...

... my true love gave to me... some medicines into my IV... (I realized I miscounted on the last "days of Christmas" I posted- I forgot to add the original 12!)

Kim has not gone a whole day yet without spiking a fever. Today they put her back on all of the antibiotics tehy could think of, and sent her down for another CT scan. Everything is still coming back negative, so tomorrow they are going to try again taking her off of the antibiotics. Hopefully that last blast of them will have wiped out whatever was causing the fever (the worry is that it is still that infection lingering in her body somewhere.)

Kim is still tired and recovering, but she is well enough to be a little annoyed with the uncertainty of it all. She feels a little better every day, and her blood counts keep coming up. She wonders what her body is trying to do to her :)

Dad is going to spend this weekend with Kim, and mom will be coming home tonight. Dad has spent this week redoing our main bathroom (paint, caulk, etc) and hopefully mom and I will be able to do some more Christmas preparations... and HOPEFULLY Santa will decide to visit us within the next week or so! I'm still counting the days... up... til Christmas!
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  1. CarolJanuary 15, 2010 at 9:35 PM

    I would count every day with Kim as Christmas. There is no gift a great as life itself! Have courage and remember our prayers are with you,
    The Nolans

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