Her little girl was “super” athletic: gymnastics, hula, surfing with her dad every weekend. Sheʼd never been really sick, either. But on May 8, 2008, Jayme found out why her daughter, Taylor, was running a high fever. It wasnʼt allergies, it was leukemia.
In the Pediatric Ambulatory Unit at Kapiʻolani Medical Center, the whole family felt special. “It just blows me away, how the staff cares for Taylor as a patient AND a young girl,” Jayme says. “Staff were concerned for me and my husband, too. We couldnʼt have asked for anything better.”
Taylor completed her final round of chemotherapy on Nov. 1. “Weʼre taking it one day at a time,” Jayme says. “But I know Taylor is ready to get back in the water.”
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