KESJ: 21 February 2010

Monday, February 22, 2010

21 February 2010

T+159

Jeremy has been waking quite early this week - it is great how he has so much energy, but it is very tiring at 5.30am. It is hard to be enthusiastic about getting up when your body wants a sleep in... However, we were motivated to get a hurry on as the bouncy, energetic child was also hungry, and quite vocal about his need to consume breakfast.

As we were getting ready for church, we marvelled again at how soft and fluffy Jeremy's hair is - we managed to spike up the curly hair just by adding water.

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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.