A Pennsylvania family is devastated after their 16-year-old son died of leukemia just 24 hours after being diagnosed with the disease.
Kyle Limper appeared to be a fit, healthy and active teenager who regularly participated in school sports, but when he complained of persistent back pain after a basketball game, his parents rushed him to the emergency room.
“They told me if he doesn’t get better I’ll have to bring him back in a few days. Well, in a few days he couldn’t even get up. He couldn’t even get out of bed and I had to help him get up, and then he fell back on the bed,” said Kyle’s dad, Ken Limper. Fox 29.
When the pain didn’t subside, he was admitted to Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, but the doctors could do little more than make the crushing diagnosis.
By the time the teen was admitted, his organs were already slowly shutting down and Kyle had passed away a day later, rocking the world of his friends and family.
Kyle Limper, a 16-year-old died within 24 hours of being taken to hospital and diagnosed with leukemia
Kyle’s parents, Kenneth and Jodi, were shocked to learn their son was battling cancer and had no idea he was sick
“It was like it was just a nightmare,” Ken said. “It was like every time we came back to the room, it just got worse and worse.”
Kyle’s parents were shocked to learn their son was battling cancer and had no idea he was sick.
“Before April 13, he was a perfectly healthy and happy young man with no signs of illness. It came and took him the same day,” Kyle’s father Kenneth wrote online.
“The mark Kyle has left on all of our hearts is incomparable to anything in this world. He did more in his short 16 years and touched more lives with his selflessness, generosity, friendship and love than most would in a lifetime.”
Kyle was a high school football player for Penn Treaty High School, he also wrestled and ran. He aspired to become a college football athlete and wrestling champion.
Limper was a high school athlete who complained of back pain after a recent basketball game, leading his parents to take him to the hospital
Doctors revealed his organs stopped working due to leukemia and he died within a day of being hospitalized leaving family and friends in shock
After high school, Kyle planned to go to college to study criminal justice and join the CSI or FBI
After high school, Kyle planned to go to college to study criminal justice and join the CSI or FBI.
This summer he was accepted into a program where he would have studied with real CSI agents in Washington DC
His parents, brother and sister are now reeling from the sudden loss of a son and brother.
“He wanted to stop all the bad evil in this world by putting all the criminals behind bars. So that people could live their best lives safely. That was Kyle always thinking of everyone,” father Ken wrote.
He loved to embrace the best of what life had to offer him. Now it is with a heavy heart that we must live our best life for Kyle.”
Kyle’s parents and family are now reeling from the sudden loss of a son and brother
Kyle was admitted to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children’s in northeastern Philadelphia, where he died just 24 hours later
Kyle’s mother, Jodi Taffe, had also recently overcome cancer herself.
“I don’t wish this feeling or the situation on anyone. It’s indescribable,” Jodi said. “I can’t, I can’t even put into words how I feel.”
a GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help the family cover funeral costs with $10,000 raised so far.
Kyle’s family says they want to honor their son’s memory by encouraging people to live good lives and cherish their loved ones.
“Just live right for him, you know. That was all he wanted, for everyone to have a good life. That’s what he was trying to do,’ Ken said.