Do you remember Brenda? She's one of the honorees of the East Bay run team, and I got to know her last summer when I was training. When I first started out, her AML was in remission, but as the season progressed, we found out that she had relapsed. She went through chemo, and a bone marrow transplant in September. Unfortunately, the bone marrow transplant didn't go as well as hoped, because her new immune system began to attack her lungs.
I found out on Wednesday that she had been taken to the hospital and the doctors had taken her off her medication, giving her at most a day and a half to live. They underestimated her (her nickname wasn't "freakishly strong" for nothing!), but unfortunately this was one battle she couldn't win. She passed away at about 5 PM this evening.
She will be missed.
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