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Following Death, April Kramer Donation Trust Established
April Kramer passed away Jan. 15 after battling Acute Mylogeneous Leukemia.
An April Kramer Donation Trust is being established at on behalf of the family of April Kramer, age 34, who passed away on Jan. 15, 2012 after a two-year battle with Acute Mylogeneous Leukemia (AML).
This trust is to offset medical expenses incurred during her two years of treatment and to establish a college fund for her 2-year-old daughter, Isabelle.
Here is her story.
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On Feb. 2, 2010, only eight months after the birth of her daughter, April was diagnosed with Acute Mylogeneous Leukemia (AML). She received treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, beginning that February until the disease was declared to be in remission in September 2010. She received a total of six chemotherapy treatments and was rarely able to go back home to be with her daughter.
On Aug. 12, 2011, April received devastating news that her Leukemia had returned. She started chemotherapy immediately and a consultation to receive a bone marrow transplant. In early November, she developed a fungal infection in her sinuses that nearly took her life. She battled through that and on Thanksgiving Day, received her bone marrow transplant.
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On Dec. 4, 2011, she was admitted into the ICU at Methodist Hospital in Rochester with very low blood pressure and an infection. A few days later, a breathing tube was inserted. Then, a few days before Christmas, she started going downhill fast and almost lost her battle on Christmas Eve.
On Christmas Day, we received a miracle in that she started turning around and was getting better. We were also receiving good news that her transplant had taken and that she was starting to produce her own white blood cells again.
About a week after New Year's, April started going downhill again. After lengthy discussions with her doctors and the realization that she was not going to be able to recover, April passed peacefully on Jan. 15.
April is survived by her husband, Jeremy Kramer, and daughter, Isabelle, of Northfield.
To make a contribution to the trust, contact Wells Fargo Bank.
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