Sunday, March 27, 2011

Childhood Cancer

I have a niece and nephew who are childhood cancer survivors.  My niece was diagnoses at the age of 5 with cancer and a name to long too write and pronounce, but it was a type that was very rapid in growth. From the time of onset to the time of surgery it had grown from baseball size to large grapefruit size (about 10 days) and that is after removing part of the tumor of biopsy. She is now a college student studying graphic design.  Because of the chemo treatment she had she does have some learning disabilities and was on an IEP throughout her school years, in high school the teachers gave her some strategies to from learning and she has been able to use them in college. Throughout her treatment the doctor tried to make sure she missed as little of school as possible.  She did get upset at the doctors when her hair fell out but what kept her going was the prize she was to get at the end of treatment, plus lot of prayer from me and her paternal grandma church.  I knew with the grace of God everything would turn out the way it needed to be. My niece's mother still has the hardest time dealing with what happened to her daughter but does not seek help with her feelings and is very clinical when she talks about the cancer no feelings emerge and the her father has talked about it with some feeling but not very much.    I know very little about my nephew treatment but he is now a college student too. The only thing I really know is that he can not do very physical things because of the graphed bone he has in his leg from the cancer. 

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