KESJ: 11 January 2010

Monday, January 11, 2010

11 January 2010

T+118

Jeremy was so pleased with himself today - after tracing his name for a week, he announced this morning that he could write it all by himself and would "prove it"! So he did - in huge letters which filled up an A4 piece of paper - and then rushed off to practise some more. And tonight he proudly did it again to show BaBa when he came home.

All dressed up and nowhere to go!

1 comment:

ivrusuboca said...: Well done Jeremy !! I like to see you all smiling - great photo ! I wish you best of luck for Jan 20 !!; January 12, 2010 at 2:43 PM

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Definitions

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) - a rapidly progressing cancer of the blood and bone marrow. ALL affects the type of developing white blood cells known as lymphocytes. It is the most common form of childhood leukaemia, and the most common type of childhood cancer. It also occurs in adults.

Blast cells - immature blood cells normally found in the bone marrow. Blast cells normally constitute up to 5% of all bone marrow cells. These cells divide and replenish all the normal blood cells in the marrow and circulating blood. Acute leukaemia is characterised by an accumulation of abnormal blast cells that take over the marrow and spill out into the blood stream.

Bone marrow transplant - the process of replacing bone marrow cells (stem cells) that are unhealthy, with stem cells that are healthy. The healthy stem cells are re-infused intravenously through the central line, after very strong chemotherapy and/or radiation to kill unhealthy stem cells. The re-infusion of healthy stem cells essentially rescues the patient from the chemotherapy and/or radiation, by enabling his or her bone marrow to start producing new blood cells.