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Evening, My Niece was diagnosed with ALL in mid-May this year. She and her parents live in Cape Town so she is being treated at the Red Cross Children's Hospital. She had almost completed her second block of chemo and was about to go into maintenance...
My daughter was diagnosed with Ph + ALL three months ago. It has been very challenging for me and the whole family as our life changed so rapidly from the second they told us she has Acute leukaemia. She is only 5 and she has been through so much already...
My husband has had a stem cell transplant after acute lymphoblastic,he’s nearly at 100 days and been doing so well,up until today when a call from the hospital has really broke him,they want another blood test done as platelets are low,twice the nurse...
My son was diagnosed in 2002 with ALL in 2002 aged 8. In June 2016 he relapsed after 14 years. He has had 2 stem cell transplants one in 2016 and the other 2020. He has had two rounds of Carr t therapy and most recently immunotherapy. He had a bone marrow...
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