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I've known Jamie for about 10 years now. We went to high school together and she was two years ahead of me. We were both in band; I marched clarinet, she was in colorguard. We were never all that particularly close, other than being in the same place for many hours at a time in school. Our band was medium-large (we marched 120-130 the time we were together), and we just ran in different friend circles. We've loosely kept tabs on each other throughout the years over facebook.
She'd been having weird, unexplainable health problems for a few years and after a year of having benign cysts in her legs, the doctor decided it was time to seek a second opinion. Long story short, it wasn't benign. It was cancer. At 24 years old. She's had good days and bad days since, even went into remission for awhile, but it came back last year. From the updates she made, the outlook didn't look very good.
I saw an update this morning that she'd been taken to the hospital last night when sickness took a turn for the worst. She's been given a lot of blood, potassium, magnesium, and antibiotics to fight this, plus she's having a lot of trouble breathing. In her words exactly, her body is shutting down. I know this must be terrifying for her, but I can't help but think of her family too. Her husband, her daughter, her parents. She's fought hard just to live the last few years. The thought of very soon she could be leaving this world and the people she'd have to leave behind is so awful. If you do that sort of thing, please send these people good thoughts/prayers. They could certainly use some right now.
Life is such a cruel mistress at times.
She'd been having weird, unexplainable health problems for a few years and after a year of having benign cysts in her legs, the doctor decided it was time to seek a second opinion. Long story short, it wasn't benign. It was cancer. At 24 years old. She's had good days and bad days since, even went into remission for awhile, but it came back last year. From the updates she made, the outlook didn't look very good.
I saw an update this morning that she'd been taken to the hospital last night when sickness took a turn for the worst. She's been given a lot of blood, potassium, magnesium, and antibiotics to fight this, plus she's having a lot of trouble breathing. In her words exactly, her body is shutting down. I know this must be terrifying for her, but I can't help but think of her family too. Her husband, her daughter, her parents. She's fought hard just to live the last few years. The thought of very soon she could be leaving this world and the people she'd have to leave behind is so awful. If you do that sort of thing, please send these people good thoughts/prayers. They could certainly use some right now.
Life is such a cruel mistress at times.