Joshua was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) in June of 2002. He had a white blood count (WBC) of 167,400 and most of them were leukemia cells. A normal WBC is between 4.0 and 12.0. So as you can see, Joshua's WBC was very, very high.

On June 30 they put a central line in and performed a spinal tap. Then he was placed on intensive chemotherapy. When Josh's blood counts are low, he cannot be around other children. This disease seriously affects the patient and the entire family.

If at any time Joshua gets a fever of 101.5 or above, he needs to go to children's hospital so they can do a CBC and blood cultures. If his ANC is less than 500, he is admitted for antibiotics.

For email and snail mail addresses, personal web site URL, medical fund information, and a current list of interests and hobbies, visit our "Kids List" page.

For CURRENT UPDATES visit our updates page.