KESJ: 28 February 2010

Monday, March 1, 2010

28 February 2010

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It was another beautiful Sunday, and Stephanie and Jeremy had a good time at Sunday School. Afterwards, we had a special lunch of chicken and chips for the kids. Although for many months Jeremy had turned his nose up at "hot chippies", today he was just as excited about them as Stephanie.

This afternoon, we tried to tidy up Jeremy's hair (around his ears only) in readiness for the school photos tomorrow. However, we found out that cutting wavy hair is much different to cutting straight hair, and we will need more practice! Fortunately, the photo will be taken front-on facing the camera, and he will still look very handsome!

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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.