CPOY 73 Documentary Bronze: Growing with Cancer
One childhood cancer diagnosis is enough for any parent to endure for a lifetime- but four diagnoses is purely unimaginable. The Kwiecien family has been battling cancer since 2013, when their then 2 year-old-daughter, Kailee, was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare pediatric muscular cancer. The family received her fourth diagnosis on Friday the 13th, just 3 months after she had completed treatment of her 3rd diagnosis. Unfortunately ‘normal’ for them revolved around countless treatments, blood draws and doctors’ visits.
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April 13, 2018
Catherine and Dan meet with Dr. Korones after suspicious symptoms started to surface, 3 months after Kailee's last chemotherapy treatment, on Friday, April 13th at Golisano Children’s Hospital. “I just don’t see any way we are going to be able to get her through this…” says Dr. Korones, “does that mean I have no hope? No, I still have hope.”
"With this outlook our decisions will be much tougher. There will be things we may try to do to be prepared should the day we fear ever come. Catherine and I have not yet figured out how we could possibly handle the loss of our Kailee," Dan says.
Traci Westcott / Rochester Institute of Technology
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