Word: leukemias
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...Sunday, eleven hours before he was to pursue the gold at that distance in Calgary, Jansen was summoned to a phone. It was a call from the hospital room of his sister Jane with the news that she was rapidly losing her yearlong battle with leukemia. The eldest of nine children and a speed skater herself, Jane, 27, had urged him to go to Calgary despite her worsening health. While a brother held the phone to her ear, Jansen spoke to her, but she was unable to reply. Four hours later she had died...
Laura, who was diagnosed as having leukemia in 1983, had been in remission for several years. But she relapsed in January and had to re-enter the hospital. "I didn't think [the cancer] would come back," 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...
Katie was first diagnosed as having leukemia seven years ago and has been in remission since then. Last Wednesday when she suffered seizures, she was rushed to the new emergency room at Children's. But her seizures were diagnosed as a neurological disorder that is unrelated to cancer...
George Bush's recently published as-told-to autobiography, Looking Forward, illustrates a candidate's natural reluctance to psychoanalyze himself. Bush devotes two pages to describing the harrowing death of his three-year-old daughter Robin from leukemia in 1953. But when it comes time to sum up what this tragedy meant to him, all Bush chooses to offer is the flat observation, "To this day, like every parent who has ever lost a child, we wonder why." One mentions this incident not to fault Bush but to highlight the difficulties in trying to assess the meaning of life experiences...