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Katie Wernecke ...
Katie Wernecke now 14, was 12 when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes.
Katie Wernecke now 14, was 12 when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes.
In June 2005 Katie Wernecke was taken into state custody after her parents
refused radiation treatment. The Werneckes had argued chemotherapy already
killed the cancer and they feared the radiation would do more harm than good.
Katie Wernecke was eventually returned to her family, and she has since undergone
traditional and nontraditional treatments, including radiation. Her cancer
went into remission but has aggressively reappeared, according to the family's
Web site.
Katie's paper, written for her ninth-grade English class, was added to the
site Wednesday night.
“I started to wonder, and then it hit me,” the fictional Hope Clarkson
writes. “I didn't have my blood drawn and I was never seen by the doctor
like I was supposed to, so I figured what (the doctor) said must have been
really bad and mom also looked so worried and sad. ... Thinking about all
these things lead (sic) me to believe that I was dying.”
In the story, the letter is written to Hope's parents and read after she
dies.\
Ed Wernecke said it was hard for him to know if the paper helped Katie come
to grips with her struggle.
“It's hard to get into her mind,” he said.
A judge returned Katie Wernecke to her parents in November 2005 and said
they would be in charge of her care.
Ed Wernecke said his daughter is in school and still undergoing treatments.
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