KESJ: 24 February 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

24 February 2010

T+162

Jeremy received this award at the K-2 Assembly today. Stephanie said that he was standing the "stillest", holding his award in front of the rest of the infants school while the other children received their awards. It was the first time this year that these awards were handed out (they are given out on a weekly basis), and there was only one per class. He must have been very pleased with himself! Praise God that he is enjoying school so much!

1 comment:

Tia said...: Love it!; February 25, 2010 at 12:26 AM

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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.