By Kathy Hanks
The Hutchinson News 

Cheerleader tackles life changes after leukemia diagnosis

 

December 23, 2016



HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — It was Tuesday and Hutchinson High had a home game that night, but cheerleader Kiley Flanagan wasn't there.

Instead she was wrapped in a fleece giraffe-print blanket, curled on her side in a hospital bed as chemo-drugs slowly dripped into a catheter in her chest. A nurse was preparing to transfer her to Wesley Medical Center's pediatric intensive care unit where she would remain for several days, according to The Hutchinson News (http://bit.ly/2gTzXqU ).

In Kiley's fight against acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the medical staff first inject her with a high dose of methotr...



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