Thursday, July 25, 2013

An MTV and a George Bush leukemia article

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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