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Emilio R. |
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Date of Birth: April 29, 2004 Featured: May 2008 Parents: Theresa and Rangel R. |
| I had tummy problems in December and mommy took me to Silver Cross Hospital. They thought it was my appendix, but it wasn't. My tummy still hurt, so I went to Hope Christ Hospital and they did more testing. My hemoglobin kept dropping and I became anemic. It made me tired, pale, and irritable. I was sent home in December without knowing what was wrong. Christmas came and went and I still went to have lab testing done to watch my hemoglobin. Then in early January, I went to a doctor called a hemotologist. He found some very abnormal cells in my blood. I had to have a bone marrow test, which was not fun. Then they told me that I had Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia -- ALL. They put me in the hospital and started chemotherapy. That is a treatment with drugs that will kill all the cancer cells in my body. I had surgery to put in a central line catheter. This is a line in a major vein near my heart, which the doctors and nurses use to give me medicine through. They can draw blood from it also. They don't have to poke me so much with this port. Here's a picture of me during my seventh week at the hospital, with my big sister Sol:
Sometimes the chemo makes me very sick because it kills the good
cells along with the bad cells. When I left the hospital and went
home, I could take the drugs by mouth. I have to swallow 7
pills a day; and for some of them, I have to wake up in the middle
of the night.
EMILIO R. Emilio likes puzzles, dinosaurs, painting, SpongeBob, and Spiderman. For Emilio's personal web site URL, medical fund information, and other information, visit our "Kids List" page. For CURRENT UPDATES visit our updates page.
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