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Paige Reed Strong - Family and Friends This page was created to keep family and friends updated on Paige's cancer journey.

As you all know, Paige was recently diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), also called Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

12/06/2025

Hi Everyone!!! Sharing wonderful news that Paige’s lab work came back TERRIFIC!!! Amen, Amen!!!! God continues His miracle with our sweet Paige!!! 🙏🙏🙏🥰🥰🥰 It is so hard to put into words what it is like to wait for those labs…life hangs almost suspended…you try to go about your day but the mind is a powerful thing. You know life as you know it could completely change…again. The relief and gratitude our family has for God’s grace for Paige cannot be put into words. I just keep thanking Him multiple times a day. 🙏❤️🥰

We just arrived in Boston tonight for our check in with the stem cell transplant team at Dana Farber at the Jimmy Fund clinic. SO much less stressful now knowing her lab work was great! ❤️ I have to say it makes my gratitude to God even more profound, being back here…as it brings so many memories and feelings back - and tears of thankfulness that we get to drive back HOME tomorrow.

We are so grateful for all of you - our prayers warriors, I know God hears every one of you. 🥰 Please keep praying this miracle continues for Paige ❤️

My thoughts tonight…Don’t take a single day for granted. Keep your sense of wonder in this amazing world we live in. Hug and tell the people you love how much you love them everyday. Each day is truly a gift. Live with gratitude, and surrender to the plan God has for your life. He will be there, even in the darkest of times. He is always faithful. 🙏

As always, thank you for your love and support, Love to all 🙏🙏🙏❤️🥰

03/06/2025

Hello everyone! I hope that you are all doing well! I’m sorry it’s been longer than I had planned since my last post. Paige continues to be an absolute rockstar! She is doing great! She celebrated her 22nd birthday in February, and her “3rd second birthday” as they call it in the stem cell transport world on March 22!! It’s hard to believe it’s been three years since her transplant. What a journey. There are not enough words and thank you’s that seems adequate enough to thank God for giving us the miracle of our sweet Paige. ❤️🙏 I thank God every day and sometimes multiple times a day for her. She is truly our miracle. 🙏

Paige has been keeping busy with volunteering at her beloved Erskine Academy 🥰 and playing on the United team at the Alfond Yourh Center in Waterville. What an amazing program! She’s been playing basketball, soccer, and now softball. She loves it, especially all the socialization! We all know Paige 😉 She is also doing Special Olympics!

For those who may not be aware, Paige (and her family) are missing her Dad who went home to be with the Lord last July after a long battle with cancer. She misses him every day and we are all getting used to a new normal. One day at a time ❤️

We are headed to Maine Children’s Cancer Program this Thursday for her yearly check up. So calling all our prayer warriors to be praying that her lab work continues to come back perfect, and the gift of this transplant continues. Thank you all for your continued prayers for Paige. And giving Jesus ALL the glory for His continued miracle for Paige. I will let you all know how it goes. 🙏 I will also post some pictures soon.

Paige continues to remind us all that the ordinary is extraordinary. She lives in the moment, as we all should every day. She does not worry about the future, but focuses on the day in front of her. And she will tell you “I love my life” - despite all she has been through and leaves it behind her as she looks forward to each tomorrow. She is our hero. ❤️ She is the light in our lives!! 🥰❤️🙏

Hi Everyone!! Yesterday was Paiges second Transplant Birthday!!! It has been two years since March 22nd, 2022 - the day ...
23/03/2024

Hi Everyone!! Yesterday was Paiges second Transplant Birthday!!! It has been two years since March 22nd, 2022 - the day she had her life-saving bone marrow transplant!!!!! How is that possible that is has been two years, and how can we put into words our gratitude to our God who blessed us beyond words with saving her life so we could treasure every moment of these past two years-and many more to come!!! ❤️🙏🙏❤️ As you can see, she has been busy loving life every day. She had.Night to Shine, cheering with the United Team, and she is now even playing basketball! She also had her 21st birthday in February too! I’ll post some pictures of that and a few other recent moments over the weekend.

Paige continues to do amazingly well, and will have some two year testing done in the next two weeks. She will have a cardiac Echo and a pulmonary function test, and then we will head to Boston for a check up and also checking her lab work. They check these things to make sure the full body radiation and heavy duty chemo she had to wipe out her immune system prior to the transplant did not damage her heart or lungs. Will be praying all goes well with those tests. 🙏

What a gift each day is!!! She continues to be the light in her family and reminds us to enjoy the little things that really are the big things in life. Please continue to keep her in your prayers that the transplant will continue to be successful, with no side effects, and that she will continue to thrive!!! The ordinary is truly extraordinary! Sending love and appreciation to you all!! ❤️🙏🥰❤️

25/11/2023

Hi Everyone!!! We hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!!! Paige continues to do amazing!! 🙏 We had a terrific day with Paige so excited to help with any baking or cooking she could help with!! Grace of God, she truly continues to be our miracle everyday! 🙏❤️🙏 Not a day goes by that I don’t thank God for saving her. Each day is a precious gift with any family we have, but even
more so with Paige given all she has been through. 🙏🥰

She just joined the United Cheering Team at the Y in Waterville (thank you so much Julie and Amy for letting us know about this) and she is just beside herself with excitement!! It’s only the 2nd year they have been doing this, and last year they performed at the Maine cheering championships and will be doing so again this year! Paige is also excited to participate in other things there and I think it will be such a great social and important physical activity place for her. I will post some new pictures of Paige in the next couple of weeks. 😊

We are so grateful to God for his mercy and grace for Paige and our family, we are also so grateful and thankful for all of you and your continued encouragement and support throughout Paige’s cancer and post-transplant journey. Thank you all so much and wishing you all a love and Christ-filled Christmas season. ❤️⛪️🎄✝️🎄 Love to all ❤️

Hi Everyone!! Paige continues to feel good and is doing amazingly well!!! Amen 🙏!!! I thank God every single day for the...
28/09/2023

Hi Everyone!! Paige continues to feel good and is doing amazingly well!!! Amen 🙏!!! I thank God every single day for the gift of having her with us to love each day. ❤️. I stepped back a bit from her page this summer…just needed to take a breath. I will post a bit more, I know you all love hearing about how Paige is doing!! This picture really says it ALL!! ❤️🙏❤️ She had a terrific summer! She still gets tired pretty easy, and often takes a nap, but otherwise she is doing great!! We had an appt in Boston about a month ago and all her lab work looked good. Another Amen 🙏 I still can’t help but hold my breath a bit until the lab work results come back with her check up visits. We have another check in appt at Maine Childrens Cancer Program (MCCP) next week. I’m working on getting her childhood vaccinations re-done, as she has to get those all over again with her new immune system. Please continue your prayers for sweet Paige. One of the teachers at Erskine Academy described Paige as “love on legs” and I think of that often. She IS pure love and she just embraces each day, and lives in the moment as we all should. She loves rainbows and sunsets and checks her phone throughout the day to keep an eye on the weather so she can look for the sunset.❤️🥰❤️ Please keep
praying for Paige that she continues to stay in remission and that the bone marrow transplant continues to be successful for many, many, many years to come. 🙏🙏🙏 Much love to all! ❤️❤️❤️

28/06/2023

Hi Everyone!
Paige is home and resting on the couch and the surgery went great, no complications during or after right now. She is understandably very tired and having a little bit of discomfort at the incision site, but I just gave her some ibuprofen and I’m sure that will make her more comfortable. She’s also a little teary and I think it’s because it probably brings back a lot of things for her just being in the OR and in the recovery room, as well as recovering from the anesthesia and other medication‘s from today. Overall though she is doing well and will be taking it easy for the next few days. We SO appreciate all your prayers today for a successful port removal for her. Again onward and looking forward!❤️🙏🏻❤️
I also want to share and feel like I’m supposed to share a God moment that happened as I was going to get the car for Paige to bring her home. As I was getting in the elevator to go to the parking garage, an older gentleman stepped into the elevator with me. He looked at me and gave me a huge smile and said he was a visitor today and asked if I was the same. I smiled back and said no, that my daughter had just had some surgery, but was doing really well and we were headed home. He said the next piece really fast so it was a bit difficult to understand and the elevator doors are starting to open so there’s some noise there as well… but it was definitely along the lines of God doing “wonders every day.” I felt myself catch my breath at the words “God” and “wonder”…and felt a sense of peace and knew that that was God telling me that he was with us and continues to be with us throughout this entire journey. And He is the God of wonder. The man was saying some other things as he got off the elevator but I couldn’t hear him very well but I know he was saying something else about God with the BIGGEST smile that lit up his whole face. ❤️🙏🏻. That moment gave me such comfort. ❤️ We also had a huge eagle fly over the top of our car maybe only 20 feet up on our way home as well. Since we moved back to Maine 16 years ago God has sent me Eagles so many times exactly at the right time that I needed them and needed a sign of comfort from him. So of course it meant so much to have that happen on our way home - another moment of comfort. And Paige saw it too ❤️ We are never forsaken or alone, even in the darkest of times. ❤️🙏🏻❤️

Another update, Paige had a Maine Childrens Cancer Program visit last week and her blood work continues to look good - Amen, Amen!!! We will be heading to Boston for a check in in July. One day at a time and remember the ordinary is extraordinary!! Thank you all for your continued love and support for Paige and our family ❤️ Love to all ❤️❤️❤️

28/06/2023

Hi Everyone!!!
Today is another big day for our girl!! She is getting her port out today!!! We had to be down at Maine Meeical Center for 5:30am this morning. She is in the OR now having it removed - please say a prayer that all goes smoothly, no complications, and we put cancer in the rear view mirror for the next 50 plus years!!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️. Being back in the PACU and seeing her tears as they put in the IV brings back so many emotions…at the same time it is instant clarity for what is truly important in our lives and not to ever take our health and each day for granted. I just keep thanking God this morning (and I do multiple times every day) for the miracle He has given Paige and us with her successful bone marrow transplant. I am beyond grateful every day to hug her and and tell her how much I love her, and hear her awesome laugh. ❤️🙏🏻❤️ Remember the ordinary is EXTRAORDINARY!!! Amen!! 🙏🏻 I will post an update later on how things went with her surgery. Love to all ❤️❤️❤️

20/06/2023

Hi Everyone!
Paige continues to feel terrific and had the most incredible Senior Week! My apologies for the delay in posting - I have finally had a moment to download all the pictures and save them. Paige LOVED every single moment of her Senior Week - Baccalaureate, Class Night, Renaissance Assembly, Class Trip, and Graduation! And she even attended a little bit of Project Graduation at Erskine after graduation!! She was also blessed to get a Student of the Trimester award from Erskine at the Renaissance assembly - what an incredible moment - with Mr. McQuarrie filled with emotion as he read the presentation, Paige's face as she came to accept the award and just hugged me for the longest time - and had tears on her cheeks (as I had on mine), the LONGEST standing ovation, and feeling so grateful to God for her even being able to be there to accept it - I can't even describe it with enough words or emotions. 🙏❤️ The other events were also wonderful, and graduation was just perfect in every way for Paige (other than the need to put on her sneakers as her dress shoes were hurting her feet). She just soaked in every moment - and when they announced her name, "Exploring workplace internships and continuing to live life to its fullest is Paige Elizabeth Reed" she received another standing ovation at the Augusta Civic Center! It was just an incredible night - again we were all just so filled with gratitude for her to experience every moment. Our sweetest Paige, it is just so amazing how many lives you have touched with your loving way and kindness, your sassy and fun personality, and huge heart. ❤️ We are beyond proud of you, you never gave up in the hardest of circumstances - and we can't wait to see what you do next!!!! We are so grateful to God for our miracle girl - truly you have all witnessed her miracle firsthand as you have traveled on this journey with us, and I know how much you are all celebrating this graduation with all of us as well!! I will post more pictures tomorrow. As always, thank you all for your love and support 🙏❤️ What an amazing, loved-filled time - Paige is still talking about it (and will for a very long time!) We will all never forget it. Much love to all ❤️❤️❤️

05/05/2023

Hi Everyone!!!

More great news for our Paige!!! Her bone marrow Chimerism came back 100% Seth’s cells!!! Amen!!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻. Boston sent another Chimerism from her blood and we will get that back in 3-4 weeks. I would assume it would be the same but please pray that this result returns the same as the
Bone marrow!!! 💯% Seth’s cells!! 🙏🏻. Paige is truly a miracle!! She is able to go to school on white days without a mask - unreal. She is thrilled and I have to say I’m struggling a bit… after having to be so protective as she had no Immune system it is hard let’s things open up a bit…as I’m sure she will probably get her first cold… 🙏🏻

She is getting so so so excited for graduation on June 9th!!! I have to say it will be so beyond amazing to see her walk across that stage!!!! Thinking of all she has been through and how hard she has worked to bring herself back!!! So proud of this girl!! ❤️🙏🏻❤️. Please keep Paige in your prayers for the blood Chimerism, more strength as she continues to build her stamina, and that she stays healthy. The ordinary is extraordinary!!! 🙏🏻 Love to you all ❤️🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻❤️

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