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

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Bone Marrow Donors

As I mentioned in the last post, the doctors here at PCMC have found five bone marrow matches for Kim in the registry, and two potential cord matches. Now is when they start to look at the individuals, making sure that one, or any of them, will still be able to be Kim's donor.

We would like to make a special request, of all of you... We've heard that it often happens that a person may no longer be able to donate, either because of health issues, or choice. As Kim only has five matches, it's possible that none of them will go through. So, if you could please pray for the donors- so that they might be able to donate to Kim, and hopefully others who are in need as well.


Kim had a few blood counts yesterday, but none again today. Still, we're hoping that it won't be too much longer before they're up. Her next aspirate (bone marrow test- to see how much of the Leukemia is still left) will be some time next week. We're hoping she might be able to come home for a couple of days after she's recovered most of the way, just to finish the job. However, this is such a critical time for her, and it's important to get to the transplant stage as fast as possible, so they might just try to keep her. (Notice that I said "try"! Our Kim's a tough one to keep down!)

Kim has some fun today learning meditation techniques from an alternate medications doctor at PCMC. Because pain and sleep medications don't really work all that well for her, and she really needs to be limiting the amount of drugs that she takes into her body, she's going to try to learn some tricks. Quite the opposite to her usual Up, Run, Go! attitude!

Thank you all as always- not a day goes by that I don't think of how different all of this would be without your thoughts and prayers.

Much love, Emily
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  1. mommynolanJanuary 22, 2011 at 11:05 PM

    Hi guys,
    Just wanted you to know we were thinking about you. We love you, Pat and Renee

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