Freddie
Freddie K
blood cancerThursday night I found myself amidst a sea of people. Alongside me were survivors, family members, and friends. The atmosphere was one of unity, with banners and signs reminding us why we walked.
Thursday night I found myself amidst a sea of people. Alongside me were survivors, family members, and friends. The atmosphere was one of unity, with banners and signs reminding us why we walked.
In September 2014, just shy of four months after college graduation, I was blindsided sitting in the emergency room at Duke Hospital.
On March 28, 2018, my husband brought Riley, my sweet, spunky six-year-old, to the emergency room for unbearable leg and hip pain, so unbearable she could no longer w
My world changed forever in April 2021. Life was going so well . . .
June 18th, 2021. A day that I would never expect to happen never in a million years. I was 17 years old living my life like any other teenage girl would.
Only a couple weeks into my first year of my graduate program, I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with FLT3 mutation. I was only 21 years old and my entire world got flipped upside down. My whole life changed and I was about 1,000 miles from home.
When I was in fourth grade, back in 2015, my older brother Nate (a freshman in high school at the time) was rushed down by ambulance to the U of M Masonic Children’s Hospital. His spleen was holding 10x the normal amount of red blood cells. This led to the discovery of his cancer. He was later diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).
I’m a very simple guy. I’ve worked in the financial industry for almost 10 years, however, my passion is cooking. In 2019, I had just lost 225 lbs.