Boston Herald Reporter Mourns 2-Year-Old Daughter Who Lived 9 Months With Leukemia

Boston Herald NFL reporter Doug Kyed and his wife, Jen Crosby-Kyed, are mourning the death of their 2-year-old daughter Hallie.

The couple shared their confounding loss with the world Monday, nine months after Hallie was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a rare form of cancer.

“Hallie died peacefully in her sleep on Sunday morning as Jen and I held her hands in bed,” Kyed wrote alongside a carousel of family photos on Instagram. “We’re completely lost and heartbroken without Hallie. Our lives will never be the same.”

“Hallie was a special kid, and she made a positive impact on so many people she met,” he continued. This included the family’s 6-year-old daughter, he wrote: “We were lucky to be her parents, and Olivia was fortunate to have the best baby sister.”

The grieving father said “nothing could have ever prepared us” for Hallie’s initial diagnosis in April. She had a bone marrow transplant in October, but relapsed afterward, and the leukemia quickly progressed beyond control, Kyed said.

According to the Mayo Clinic, acute myeloid leukemia causes bone marrow cells to grow and divide too quickly to properly function, which inevitably crowds out healthy cells. It can thus fatally prevent essential red and white blood cells from maturing.

Crosby-Kyed shared her own tribute Monday, saying they’d “clung on to hope” after starting Hallie’s trial drug treatment, but that the cancer simply “couldn’t be stopped.” She wrote that Hallie “passed away comfortably and peacefully, snuggled next to Doug and me” at the hospital.

“I will never understand why or how something so horrible can happen,” Crosby-Kyed wrote. “There is a giant hole in my heart and the pain is excruciating, but she was such a special little person and I’m