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...Laura is currently at Children's to receive a high dosage of medication. She will return to Boston every three weeks for additional treatments, which last three days on the average, Laura said. Laura said her mother and father take turns staying overnight in the hospital. The other parent sleeps at a nearby Ronald McDonald House for families of children with cancer...
While she is in the hospital, Laura said she watches television and movies on the VCR and plays video games. "I love the duck hunting game. You know the one where you have a gun and you shoot the ducks on the screen," she said. "If you miss, they come up and laugh...
...Laura has a doll on which she practices all the medical procedures which she must undergo. She has had a lot of practice explaining her condition. When she described how her disease had come back, this time in the form of an earache, she sounded far more knowledgeable than most adults...
...Laura said she will eventually have a tutor, but for now she is homework-free. Even so, she said she misses school. "When I'm in school sometimes I wish I was sick so I wouldn't have to be there. But when I'm in the hospital getting poked, I wish I was at school with all my friends," she said...
Although many of the patients who completed Tuesday's move face long-term illnesses and surgery, some of them receive positive news instead. Laura's roommate, Katie O'Kiefe, a 12-year old from Everett, Massachusetts, said she will go home today, reassured by doctors and tests that her leukemia has not come back and she is still in remission...