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Monday, August 18, 2003
leukaemia - 10:19 PM
(filed under 'general')
i just got off the phone with monica a few minutes ago. the news isn't good. brittany has leukaemia. 
i can hardly believe it.
there are many positives amongst this horrible thing & that's all anyone can hang onto, so i'll tell them to you now. the treatment for the particular form of leukaemia she has (which mon can't remember at the moment. it's a long name & greg took the information thing home with him) has a very high success rate of 80 to 90%. the things going for her are that she's still young & that her kidneys & other internals are still working well. also, apparently, girls recover better from this than boys do.
she'll be in hospital for a month & monica's going to stay with her in the hospital that whole time. the treatment (chemotherapy) will be started the day after tomorrow & will go for two years.
kelsey (her big sister) is quite worried about her, of course. kelsey is a real girlie girl & one of her worries for brittany is the hair loss, which they say starts pretty much straight away. greg will take kelsey shopping to buy a nice soft hat for brittany to help her to stay pretty. seems like a small thing, but girls are taught from day one by society that they must look pretty, so to help her stay feeling pretty is a good thing & will help to keep her spirits up.
it's going to be a long haul. your thoughts & prayers for mon & greg & the girls will make a huge difference.
unsettling news - 10:02 AM
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i've just had some rather unsettling news from tosca, my dad's wife. she & dad are on their way to melbourne & visited mon & greg (my sister & brother-in-law) & their two girls on the way down. they left there a day or so ago. anyway, tosca left a message on the machine to ring them on the mobile. i'd been trying since yesterday afternoon but they were in an area with no mobile service.
i finally got onto tosca this morning & heard the news. britt, monnie's youngest, turning four soon, is in the hospital. she's been a bit sick lately what with colds & a virus or two doing the rounds. she's not been getting better so she had some tests. they showed that she has low everything, low haemoglobin, low this, low that .. so they put her into hospital in isolation in case it's a contagious virus.
that's the best case scenario. worst case is that it could be leukaemia! they're doing more tests today so i guess they'll find out tonight or tomorrow what's going on. i'm really worried. 
please keep her & my sister & brother-in-law in your thoughts today & pray or do whatever you do. kelsey is her big sister (she's turning six soon) & she loves britt to bits & pieces so i imagine she'll be worried too, as much as she would be able to understand what's going on. please keep them all in your thoughts.
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