Late Utah Instagram sensation Kim White continues to inspire after death

KAYSVILLE — Just weeks before the coronavirus pandemic forced Utahns to stay at home and avoid large gatherings, hundreds joined together to honor the life of a woman who fought cancer years longer than her oncologist told her she likely would.It’s now been more than a year since Kim White passed away, but the positive influence she had on tens of thousands of people lives on and continues to provide strength to people during this challenging time.White, known on Instagram as @kimcankickit, was diagnosed with adrenal cortical carcinoma in February 2014 when she was 18 weeks pregnant with her baby boy. During her pregnancy, she learned she had high blood pressure; and after none of the medications prescribed to her were helping to bring it down, she went in for an ultrasound on her kidney, where a tumor was detected, her husband, Treagan White, said.Kim, then 26 years old, had also developed HELLP syndrome and her liver was quickly deteriorating. Although her baby was perfectly healthy, the only way to save Kim’s life was to deliver the baby, who was too young to survive the birth.After that traumatic experience, Kim and Treagan learned the tumor they were originally told was…
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