KESJ: 3 April 2010

Sunday, April 4, 2010

3 April 2010

T+200

Easter Saturday started with Baba fasting for a blood test. The children were happy to watch Baba have a needle put in his arm, and it was good that the lady at pathology was fine with the audience.

We had a quick run through the shopping centre and crossed off a few to-do items from our list. Baba happily watched 2 Clarkson DVDs whilst Stephanie had fun preparing lunch with Dr KonKon. After the cooking was done, Jeremy surprised us as he quickly chomped through the chicken and then the pork that was on offer.

In the afternoon, we made a quick dash to the new HomeHQ shopping centre. Freedom made a #fail with regards to the rug we were interested in - marked incorrectly and then found to be out of stock!

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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.