Day 1

Day 1. I had 5 vials of blood taken in the morning to chek everything and get a more accuraste disagnosis as to what type of Leukemia it is. Later that day I had a bone marrow biopsy, this meant getting a larger needle into my hip bone and extracting a bit of bone marrow. I will most likely need a bone marrow transplant from one of my sisters , but we need to make sure we get a match. After this I had a couple of chest xrays just to see if there were any addiontal tumors within my body (haveen't got results bac yet) but I'm pretty confidnt I don't. Umm what else is there to say... oh they found it when I was having a routine blood count to check if I still had glandular fever and my white cell count showed up as 210 and the normal amount is 10 so they knew something happened. A huge thanks to everyone for the supportive messages I mean it! Sorry if I didnt reply back to your texts I have a line in my hand and I couldn't text. Also, thanks heaps to Jenny Mcwhannell (I hope this is spelt rihgt sorry :P), Chris CareySmith and Anna from CanTeen. I will update this as I get more details anfd results! Lots of Love, Alex

If you have any questions at all please ask me I will do my best to answer them. Seriously ask anything you want!