Kelly’s Story

Site created on February 22, 2013

Kelly has been diagnosed with colon cancer that has spread into her abdomen. She had surgery yesterday at Mayo. She needs to recover a bit from that and then the plan is to do chemotherapy. We hope to be going home soon.

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November 5, 2019

Journal entry by Beth LaVigne —

Kelly died this afternoon.  No words seem to work, so I’ll leave a picture.  We’ve had our fill of sorry’s.  Let’s celebrate that we were able to know and spend time with this remarkable person. 
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