Welcome to KB, KBelieve. A blog about losing your mom and everything after. It’s personal, it’s sad, sometimes it’s happy. It’s my experiences from when she passed until now. 

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KBelieve represents our mom, Karen, who has stage IV breast cancer and is working tirelessly to remain healthy. 

My name is Emilia Buckholz, I am Karen's oldest daughter and I helped design this website to show her our support. We welcome you into our lives and to feel free visiting the pages on the website and stay updated through our journey!

Recently Karen's cancer has progressed in the liver and recent systemic therapies have failed. 

She is now in the early stages of a procedure referred to as Y90. Essentially this treatment is targeting the liver disease with the hopes of slowing progression, easing pain, and extending quality of life. 

She is also receiving combination chemotherapy to keep the disease stable systemically. Karen will be on disability as she receives a few of these radiation procedures with the hopes of returning to work in the next few months. 

The simplest things have given Karen the greatest pleasure, bike rides and long walks with her best friend and husband of 27 years. 

Enjoying the outdoors and spending time with her three children gives her the greatest enjoyment. 

Whether it is sharing a laugh and shopping with Emilia, watching Lucy at collegiate pole vault and laughing hysterically at her snapchats, or hearing every detail of Miller's first few weeks of college and his collegiate tennis. 

These are the things she would like to enjoy for many years. 

To be as honest as possible, this disease and its progression is all consuming and incredibly scary. 

It is the not the disease of the pink ribbons. 

It is a disease that many people are living with but you would never know. Please learn about metastatic breast cancer and what you can do to help families such as Karen's.