Korey Eriksen

My husband Korey was diagnosed in May of 2017 – just 3 short months after our wedding. Our son was 1.5 years old at the time and Korey remained hopeful and humorous through all of the treatments for both of us. He battled for 3 years and we were even fortunate enough to be in a trial at City of Hope in California. Unfortunately all of the efforts to combat this disease did not work and Korey passed in our home with the love of Family around him. I am honored to have been Korey’s wife and the mother to our precious son. He taught me so much through all of this. Korey’s favorite things were golfing, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Boston Red Sox. After he was diagnosed, we went golfing as a family as much as we could, made many trips to Kansas City to watch the Chiefs play and even made it to Boston to Fenway to watch the Red Sox. I was happy that I could keep Korey in our home and care for him with the help of many others. It is truly something that I am proud to say I could do – and I would do it again for him a million times over. He is my whole heart, my love, my light, my hope….my angel. I am a better person for knowing him and getting to love him for as long as I did. I wish we had 70 years together, but that wasn’t the plan for us. Each day (its been over 2 years now) I have to try to remember that because it is so hard.