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Kyle's Page July 19, 2000-March 8, 2006 Our Sweet Angel

Welcome to our website! This page is so everyone can keep updated on Kyle and our family we also did this to show love, support, and understanding to all who have been touched by cancer.
Kyle is 5, and was diagnosed on January 7, 2004, with stage IV Wilms cancer, he has had his
left kidney removed, left testicle, and spots from his lung. Kyle has had numerous chemo treatments, and 24 rounds of radiation, Kyle relapsed while on treatment, and started a stem cell transplant on October 4th. On August 9th, 2005 we found out that Kyle's cancer has relapsed for the second time, we will be trying experimental therapy, the doctors don't give Kyle much of a chance but they don't realize the faith we have in Kyle and the lord, that should be able to kill any cancer!!! After trying experiemental therapy we found out that Kyle's tumor had grown, we are trying chemo to relieve pain and praying very hard that Kyle gets a MIRACLE. We tried more therapy in December of 05, and Kyle got Neuro toxicity, even though the chemo shrunk the tumor and we had surgery to remove it a week later more tumors showed up in his lungs, we have decided to give Kyle the best gift and let him be a little boy again, he is done with treatment and we pray we have a good amount of time left with our amazing little boy!!!!
Kyle passed away on March 8th we will miss him dearly!!!!




Journal

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 12:37 AM CST

I know it's been a very long time since I have signed Kyle's web page, a rush of emotion always comes over me when I come here for so long it was to tell about Kyle and what he was going through, then that stopped and it was about our family and how we are coping, then it was about my cancer and what are family endured again. It's hard not to come here and want to journal about Kyle, our sweet baby but I cannot bring myself to delete this page yet, I guess we just want people to remember that he was here, he mattered. To say, look, this was a real boy, who we held and loved, who fought like no other to live. Monday will be 4 years since Kyle left this earth and to be honest, I have cried everyday for Kyle, yes I have lived but we will never be the same. Iowa City sends out a grief services newsletter and this letter by a dad who lost his son I beleive says it all:

My Old Friend, Grief
by Adolfo Quezada

My old friend, Grief, is back. He comes to visit me once in a while just to remind me that I am still a broken person. Surely there has been much healing since my son died six years ago, and surely I have adjusted to a world without him by now. But the truth is, we never completely heal, we never totally adjust to the loss of a major love. We will be alright, but we will never be the same.
And so my old friend, Grief, drops in to say hello. Sometimes he enters through the door of my memory. Sometimes he sneaks up on me. I'll hear a certain song, smell a certain fragrance, or look at a certain picture, and I'll remember how it used to be. Sometimes it brings a smile to my face, sometimes tears.
Some may say that such remembering is not healthy, that we ought not to dwell on thoughts that make us sad. Yet, the opposite is true. Grief revisited is grief acknowledged, and grief confronted is grief resolved.
But if grief is resolved, why do we still feel a deep sense of loss at anniversaries and holidays, and even when we least expect it? Why do we feel a lump in the throat, even six years after the loss? It is because healing does not mean forgetting, and because moving on with life does not mean that we don't take part of the deceased with us.
My old friend, Grief, doesn't get in the way of my living. He just wants to drop by and chat sometimes. In fact, Grief has taught me, over the years, that if I try to deny the reality of a mjor loss in my life, I end up have to deny life altogether. He has taught me that although the pain of loss is great, I must confront it and experience it fully or else risk emotional paralysis.
Old Grief has also taught me that I can survive even great losses and that although my world is very different after a major loss, it is still my world and life is worth living. He has taught me that when I am willing to be pruned by the losses that come, I can flourish again in season; not in spite of loss, but because of it.

My old friend, Grief, has taught me that the loss of a loved on does not mean the loss of love, for love is stronger than separation and longer than the permanence of death.

Forever Missed by your family Kyle
Mom, Dad, Ashley, Zachary, and Noah

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Kyle Reed
18836 442nd Ave
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563-872-4595

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