R2-KT — Katie's Legacy
Realization of a dream gives Star Wars fan with brain cancer a companion through her illness, commemorates her life through helping others
A long time ago in a hospital far, far away, 6-year-old Katie Johnson was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. Always eager to get dirty, climb things, scrape her knees, and just run and play, Katie had just finished soccer season when her parents noticed that she was falling down a lot. They chalked it up to clumsiness on the field, but when she began walking strangely, Katie's pediatrician immediately ordered an MRI to take a closer look at her neurological symptoms. A brain tumor was discovered, and the prognosis was devastating.
—Med Monthly | Aug 2011
