Leukemia has most incidence rate in caucasians, lower for asian, and rather rare for African descents (whom we see on this floor, mostly with sickle cell anemia). Here is a musician whose son is battling leukemia and a song he wrote and sang for him.
And did you know that George Bush lost a daughter to leukemia in 1953? I didn't until yesterday when somebody on the ALL list posted the link. What Barbara Bush talked about in the interview is very dear to my heart and I cried again and again for their loss. "You have to realize that every well person is a miracle. It takes billions of cells to make up a person. And all it takes is one cell to be bad to destroy a whole person." Please hug the miracles in your lives and be grateful for what you have.
The part about George Junior is really funny: "I must say, George Junior saved my life. I spent a lot of time playing with him and with Jebby after Robin's death, but I didn't really realized that George Junior was humoring me until I heard him tell a playmate that he couldn't come out today because he had to play with his mother, who was lonely. "
And her sentiments towards her other children is so real: "But each time the other children got sick, you can believe me, I was hanging over that crib more than any other mother. I was sure we would lose another child. You just don't know how valuable a child is until you lose one, and you don't know what a miracle it is when a child is born well."
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