KESJ: 16 June 2010

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

16 June 2010

T+274

Today Stephanie and Jeremy celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival with the rest of the Infants School (K-2). The infants children were allowed to go to school dressed in their national costumes, and there was a special assembly where the children sang "I Can Sing A Rainbow" in both English and Mandarin. Students from Year 3 performed a Chinese play about the meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival, and students from Year 2 presented a Chinese poem, a Chinese Dance and a Korean Dance. Jeremy was pleased to watch Stephanie in the Korean Dance!

He must have been too excited about the special events at school today, because tonight he woke up with another low grade fever! No school for him tomorrow!

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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.