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Kaelei and Holli - November 20, 2005
Welcome to Kaelei's Web Page. It has been provided to keep friends and family up to date on Kaelei's trials and triumphs throughout this journey.
There is a general introduction in the first journal entry.(Just click on "read journal history" and scroll all the way down to first entry.)
Kaelei's diagnosis: recurrent pilocytic astrocytoma located in her brain stem.
As of late June, 2005- Kaelei has been tumor free for 2 years this go round!!!
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Journal
Friday, October 24, 2008 1:44 PM CDT I cant believe how much time has passed.
I've been sitting here reading through old entries. Remembering. I'm so thankful its all still here.
Kaelei celebrated her 12th birthday in August and Holli her 11th. Can you believe it! They are both doing so well. I am so proud of them. I will post some recent pictures of them as soon as I am able. They've grown up into quite the young ladies.
The past few years have been bittersweet. Kaelei's health has been fabulous. She's been tumor free this time for 4 1/2 years now!! Holli is dealing with her diabetes like a trooper. We are incredibly happy in our home life. They have a good relationship with their dad, Kevin, and they have an wonderful relationship with my husband, the absolute love of my life.
All of this is so amazing- we are so blessed- yet I say its been bittersweet.
Last year we were pregnant with triplets. Yes- 3 babies at one time! lol. But my water broke early and they were born too soon. We had identical boys and a little girl. The first of the boys, Anders, was born on September 11th of 2007 at 19 weeks. His brother, Bale, and his sister, Crosby, were born on September 26th at 21 weeks. We were blessed enough to be able to hold each of them. My three children died in my arms after only an hour on this earth. They were beautiful. Perfect. Just born too soon. I tried my best to save them. To keep them safe in my belly, but I failed.
The girls were able to hold each of them. They wanted their brothers and sister as desperately as we did. They loved them so much and were just devastated.
It's been a tough year since then. How do you recover from holding your children, one after another, as they die. You dont recover. You eventually find a way to keep living I guess, but that hole in your heart never heals.
We've been given another blessing though. We are pregnant again. 11 weeks as of today. We were actually pregnant with twins, but one of the babies stopped growing just shy of 7 weeks and died. I dont understand why. I wont even try. So far the other baby looks wonderful though. We just got another peek at him/her yesterday. Bouncing all around. It was fantastic. I just pray that my body doesnt fail us again and that this child will be in our arms a few months from now.
I will probably write more often now. I'm sure everyone gave up on us a long time ago, but thats ok. I will still write.
And I will post pictures soon!
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