02/16/2026
🎗️🗺️Today is International Childhood Cancer Day.
Meet Kinlee! When Kinlee was 9 years old, she began saying that her left eye was “not blinking”. Her mom noticed that it was blinking slower than the right, and it looked larger. Kinlee then developed Bell’s Palsy type symptoms. Her doctor sent her for a stat MRI after a CT at the ER. Scans showed her left eye was the one that appeared bulging, and there was something gray showing in the center of the hole where the brain stem is. This weird gray object was also showing in her left eye socket. Kinlee’s mom was told by doctors that this was normal and they walked out the door without throught. She knew in her heart it wasn’t normal. 3 days later on December 18th, it was confirmed that Kinlee had a brain stem tumor on her pons that extended out into the cerebellum and had also spread to her right occipital lobe. It was DIPG. Since her diagnosis, Kinlee has undergone 30 rounds of radiation completing it on March 6th, she required a shunt placement, then she was also apart of the DIPG ONC201 trial from March 25-June 25. In June of last year it was found that her tumor had herniated through the base of the skull. She was sent home on hospice, but 2 days landed in the ER due to respiratory distress. On July 1st, she underwent scans and the results were something her doctor couldn’t explain, becsuse the tumor was no longer herniated despite no intervention having been done. Kinlee has also celebrated her tenth birthday. It has been almost 14 months since her diagnosis and sadly, the trial therapy that kept her stable is no longer effective, and as of January 2026, there are no longer any treatments in Texas for her. Kinlee has been in the hospital for weeks now and her family needs your help to raise funds as they help their girl fight!
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