Colby was diagnosed with vascular cancer on Dec. 23, 2005 after doctors found a tumor in her liver. At the time of her death, her stomach was about 94 inches around, swollen with fluids the cancer wouldn’t let her body properly digest. The rest of her body probably weighed about 45 pounds, family friend Carole Lynch said. Colby had gone to Newport Elementary School and was known for making others laugh, family friend Terrell Orum said. Colby loved to dance, sing, swim and seemed to have a more mature understanding of the world than other children her age, Orum said. On April 28, Colby went to see the Dream Works 3-D movie "Monsters Vs. Aliens" but was impressed by the previews to "Up." “It was from then on, she said, ‘I have to see that movie. It is so cool,’” Lynch said. Colby was a movie fan, Lisa Curtin said, and she latched onto Pixar’s movies because she loved animals. Two days later Colby’s health began to worsen. On June 4 her mother asked a hospice company t...
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