Day 2 of Chemo Therapy

On Monday the 27th 2009, Jonathan Case was
diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL).

He is 14 years old and is supposed to be starting as a freshman at Summerville High School in the Fall. The doctors however, have put us on a three year road to recovery therefore he will not be starting school until the cancer goes into remission.

There are two tyes of Leukemia. There is acute and chronic, each of them are argueably the worse of the two. The acute kind comes on all at once and it worsens very quickly but 60% of children who have it go into remission and have no relapes.

Jonathan started feeling bad about last week. He then developed a rash on his neck that started to spread. His neck swelled due to 7 swollen lymph nodes. They put him on a high doseage of an antibiotic to try and knock it out. After a couple of days he broke out in a rash on his body that resembled chicken pox. It was petikei which is where capilaries in your body burst. We saw the doctor again the next morning and ran some tests. Monday afternoon the cancer was confirmed and we started chemotherapy and he had a bone marrow biopsy and a spinal tap.