24. While receiving platelets through an IV during outpatient treatment, Kate meets a fellow leukemia sufferer whom she has a relationship with, including going to a hospital prom. What is his name?
From Quiz Jodi Picoult's 'My Sister's Keeper'
Answer:
Taylor
Kate was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia at the age of two. The first sign of this is a bruise which sits between her shoulder blades. She initially shakes her head when asked whether it hurts but when her older brother, Jesse, presses his thumb against it, Kate howls in response. The morning after this happens, Kate sleeps longer than normal which leads Sara, her mother, to think about how her daughter has been tired lately although she puts it down to her being sniffly. Then when waking her daughter, she notices a string of bruises trailing down her spine. Sara takes Kate to a pediatrician thinking her daughter is anemic but after he gives her a blood test, they are sent to the oncology ward at the hospital for further tests. After further blood tests she is shown to have leukemia. Kate is constantly in and out of hospital after this causing her attention which she doesn't enjoy. She meets Taylor at the age of fourteen but he sadly passes away after they go to the hospital's prom for sick children together. Kate isn't told of his death for a month afterwards.