Fourteen-year-old Katelyn Norman doesn’t have much time left.
Doctors say osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer, will soon take the Tennessee teen’s life.
But it hasn’t stolen all her chances to experience the joys of being young including the prom. Katelyn hoped she’d be well enough to attend a personalized prom at her school Tuesday night, but that afternoon she had trouble breathing and had to be hospitalized.
Her friends and family rallied, bringing the event to her hospital room, where her date presented her with a corsage and a “Prom Queen” sash. Katelyn insisted that the prom at school proceed without her: “She contacted me and said prom must go on — that’s her, and you can’t help but feed off that energy, that life,” said the organizer