Overview
- Brandon Paul confirmed her death in a roughly 10-minute Facebook video posted January 22, saying he was grateful she was no longer in pain.
- He said she deteriorated that morning, was taken to the ER, then the ICU, where she died, noting how quickly the leukemia spread.
- Paul was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in October 2023 while in her second year at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.
- She chronicled her treatment on TikTok and Instagram, drawing about 28,000 to 30,000 followers and a wide outpouring of support.
- Days before her death, she posted that she was losing her voice and in severe mouth pain, and she had published a poetry book titled This Is What It Feels Like: A Book of Poems Written by a Cancer Patient.