2 Bone Marrow Drives Set for Graduate Battling Leukemia
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After a year of 12-hour school days to make up lost credits resulting from her battle with leukemia, Kimberly Juarez graduated from Los Altos High School on Wednesday with a dream of someday becoming a veterinarian.
Diagnosed at 12 with an aggressive type of leukemia, the Hacienda Heights student suffered a second relapse last month. Her family is desperately searching for a matching bone marrow donor by July 5 to save her life.
After her first relapse in May 1995, she became partially paralyzed. But the senior, who friends call a born fighter, overcame the paralysis.
She underwent an experimental procedure at City of Hope in Duarte using her own marrow but it proved unsuccessful, and on May 14 she suffered another relapse.
Two bone marrow drives are set for Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. One will be held at the American Legion at 4542 N. Peck Road in El Monte, and the other at McDonald’s, 1500 Whittier Blvd., Whittier.
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