Olivia’s Story

Site created on July 30, 2021

Welcome to our CaringBridge website for Olivia. Your love, support, prayers, words of encouragement and hope have meant so much. We hope to use this site to keep all of Olivia’s lovers updated when we can. Thank you so much for being here.   

Love, Kurt and Haylie

Newest Update

Journal entry by Haylie Steffensmeier

We got great news and we are so, so grateful! We’ll all rest easier tonight. 

Olivia’s scans, bloodwork, and chest x-rays all came back NED (no evidence of disease). Olivia has officially graduated to monitoring every four months, making our new months of focus April, August, and December for 2024. While exciting, it’s bittersweet; we love the support and reassurance our Blank family gives us.

Later this week, we follow up with Mayo and then that’s a wrap on our 2023 cancer journey. 🙌🏻

Olivia’s official remission is not considered until five years post treatment so we’ll continue to monitor for some time. 

Thank you for another year of love, prayers, and well wishes. We love #LivsLeague and all the support this group has given us the past two and a half years. 

Love, KHOPQ

Pictures: Post scan pose and after dropping off her pop tabs at The Ronald McDonald house.

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