Airdrie mother desperately needs funds for life-saving cancer treatment
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A 23-year-old Airdrie woman who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer while pregnant is desperately in need of hundreds of thousands of dollars for a potentially life-saving drug trial only available in the United States.
A 23-year-old Airdrie woman who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer while pregnant is desperately in need of hundreds of thousands of dollars for a potentially life-saving drug trial only available in the United States.
"I just want to grow old with my husband and to be here to see my two young kids Sophia and Theo grow up," said Brooke Kajdy, holding back tears.
"They mean everything to me."
Kajdy was 20 weeks pregnant in June of last year when she began to experience crippling pain.
Doctors originally told her to wait it out until she gave birth but she became so weak that she was barely able to crawl up a set of stairs.
"It was misdiagnosis after misdiagnosis and it wasn't until I was at the Foothills hospital getting an IV for antibiotics when the doctor I was seeing said, 'Something isn't right here,'" Kajdy said.
Following a biopsy on her hip, she was diagnosed with stage 4 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, characterized by cancer that has spread outside the lymphatic system into organs such as the liver or lungs or into the bone marrow.
