Kelly Conlon
1986-2005
Even though she wasn't in school very often, she had a great amount of friends. She would always try to live her life like a normal teenager, though it was very hard. Since she had health problems, it caused Kelly to mature at a very young age. Kelly would read Stephen King books in the 5th grade during recess. This caused her to be distant from her friends when they were still maturing. When she entered the high school, she made some more friends and became closer with her old ones again.
When she entered the 12th grade, she had been waiting four years for her second transplant. On February 26, 2005 she got the call from the Children's Hospital saying that they had a pair of lungs for her. It wasn't until 8:00 am on February 27,2005 that Kelly actually went into surgery. She was in the O.R. for about 8 hours. After her transplant, Kelly was taking small but gradual steps to getting better.
On Sunday March 20, 2005 Kelly went into crisis. My family and I went to the hospital that day to visit her. She was doing great that day and she was actually breathing on her own. It must have only been 3 minutes that we walked into the room and all of a sudden Kelly was complaining that she couldn't breath and she was having chest pain. One minute later, Katelynn and I were forced out of the room to make space for the doctors and nurses. We didn't think anything was going wrong because Katelynn and I grew up with Kelly complaining of chest pain and having trouble breathing. That was until Kelly fainted and the doctors started giving her chest compressions; which is usually a sign of cronic failure. Then I heard my mom scream and pratically collapse. Then doctors came and told us that Kelly had gone into crisis, for she was suffering from internal bleeding.
About 30 minutes later, the doctors took Kelly into O.R. to try and find the source of bleeding and close it up. The doctors came out saying that they closed a blood vessel by her lungs. They said that they did the best they could fixing the vessel. They took her back up to ICU and put her on a lung and heart bypass machine. They tried to stop the bleeding as much as they could, but Kelly wasn't making enough platelets to clot the blood. It wasn't until around 2:35 am that we lost Kelly. All I know is that Kelly was an amazing girl and had a great impact on everyone that met her. She will forever be in our memories.