Auburn student with cancer chooses to experience life ‘before I pass away.’

“What I want to do with my life is continue it,” Kayla said.

“I don’t know how long they can maintain my cancer,” she said. “I don’t know if it is a year, three years or nine. But I have hopes and dreams and things I want to accomplish.”

For now she’s living her dream as a college student — only now with a plan to be a nurse practitioner treating childhood cancer.

Kayla’s other dream right now is to raise money and awareness for childhood cancer. In her first fund-raising venture she raised $15,000 for research. She’s now shooting for $400,000.

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