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November 19, 2008, 7:28 am PST
Living with ALL Luekemia
I have a daughter that has had ALL Leukemia from the time she was 11/2 years old. She has been in remission for 7 years now. but it was and is still today a LONG process to get it under control. She has had lots of spinal taps, ports, bivouacs, ear tubs, cemo, ECT... she has found out that she has sort term memory loss, because of the cemo. and today she has foot troubles. If i my start from the start,. my daughter was 11/2 years old, I was at work all day. when I got home, she was Very tiered, pale, and she couldn't go 5 steps without getting tired, and bruises lots of them. I took her to the DR. her regular DR. was out, so we had to see the step in DR. He looked at her and gave her some antibiotics, and said " I want to see her in two weeks " I said, why is she so pale? can you check her iron? he did. it was Very low. he gave her iron pills, and said, " I still want to see her in two weeks " and sent us home. After getting home, and giving her her meds, i looked at her and said, something is just not right!. So I took her to the emergency room at the hospital. After hours, and blood work, the nurses started putting IVs in her arm, and told me that her DR. will be here to talk to me. and she was admitted to the hospital. I was thinking at that time that she just had a Very bad cold, flue,? well, up in her room, her DR. came in and tried to explain that she has all the signs of Leukemia, but we will have to get a spinal tap to know what kind she had. which we would have to drive two hours away for that in a better hospital. well, we got there the next day, she had the test, Dr. told me it was ALL Leukemia. and that is how I found out. and the sorry goes on from that to today.
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