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Mom to Mom Sale
My son is a leukemia patient at Children's hospital and a good friend of his lost his battle to cancer on June 13, 2008. His parents are now doing an ...
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- E., there is one at Immanuel Lutheran Church (corner of 21 mile & Romeo Plank) this saturday, and also one at Mohawk Elementary (on Romeo Plank, between 21 and 22 Mile...
- I think I received an email that Mohawk Elementary in Macomb Township is having one this Saturday. There is also a clothing swap coming up. Here is the info: Title: ...
- Hello E., The private school that my children go to is having a mom 2 mom sale this saturday from 9 - 1pm. The school is Krambrooke-Griffin Academy, 59027 Van Dyke ...
Seizures Due to to High Fever
After talking to my mom, she said that some children do this with a fever, .... I'm not saying that the seizure was caused by the leukemia or visa,versa. ...
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- Hi H. First I had them back when I was about 2-3 yrs old. Back then they thought that was sizure related. So I did a tons of eegs. I called it curling my hair. My cur...
- That sounds like a febrile seizure. My son had high fevers of 103-105 starting when he was about 2. We rushed him to the ER when he had his first one and we went throu...
- Last summer my neice had a seizure due to a high temperature. She is neurologically fine, as i'm sure everything will be fine with your daughter.
"Milk Banks"
very bizarre the human race is we all have our unique hang ups I would sooner donate my hair to help children with leukemia feel more confident while they ...
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- You know how your mind wanders sometimes? Just the other day, I was wandering. Since I'm a pumping Mom I was thinking about how we actually get the milk I put in my ...
- K.: for information: http://www.hmbana.org/ also know that it is not uncommon for people to "share" milk or give it to local people with need. P., RL...
- I looked into this when my son started refusing bottles (I had over 150 oz frozen and he wouldn't take any of it!). Unfortunately, the nearest milk bank is in Iowa. ...
Anyone 'Donated' Cord Blood Before?
I delivered both of my children at Inova Fairfax, and they can collect ... My 35 year old cousin was diagnosed with leukemia the same month we got pregnant. ...
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- I banked my daughter's cord blood through Viacord when she was born 17 months ago at Loudoun Hospital. My doctor was agreeable to my banking of my daughter's cord bloo...
- Actually we ended up saving our baby's cord blood due to the fact that heart problems run in my husbands family and they are doing amazing things with these cells and ...
- I did. Well, I didn't donate it - meaning I'm having it stored for my family's use. I delivered my son at Reston, and Cord Blood Resgistry is the company I used. Th...
Baby Blood Cord Banks
Sep 5, 2009 ... My daughter was diagnosed with leukemia when she was almost 2 years old ... are so many conditions that are affecting our children today and ...
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- C., I would encourage banking it. I never woudl have thought that my daughter woudl be dignosed with leukemia at the age of 28 months old. This was 12 years ago. Cord...
- Donate the Cord Blood. If more people donated, we wouldn't need to store our own. It's free and you feel good about it. Also, you don't even know it's going on when...
- Keep in mind, some Drs get "kickbacks" so they'll push just about anything... that's my thought. It is extremely expensive. My Dr basically said it's very very expen...
Seeking Moms with Children Who Have Cerebral Palsy or Hydrocephilus
I actually have three healthy, beautiful children age 8-5 and 2. ... that he was diagnosed with leukemia and i thought my world had ended , not to mention i ...
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- hi im W. i have my nephew ha has cp,his name is brandon he is 9yrs, he was born a normal child, at three and half months he caught R.S.V. he was in the hospital for 41...
- Hi D. I am a 27yr old stay at home mom my son has cp and i just found out he might have autism my son is very special to me and i have a 2 year old daughter and 2 step...
- Hi D.. While my son does not have cerebral palsy, he was born with some other birth defects. He looks OK on the outside, but from the time was born he's had this hor...
Children Having Mri's
It's never really easy to go through these things with your children, ... had an MRI at childrens hospital also age 8 after he was diagnosed with Leukemia. ...
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- I've had a few MRIs. As an adult (with migraines) the noise was what bothered me the most. If you are unable to get a child frienly staff and machine she'll benifit ...
- Hi J., It's never really easy to go through these things with your children, but just let her know they have to take special pictures and a lot of kids have the sam...
- J. my advice is to have your child given meds. to relax her I was anti meds.for my son so we had to go back a second time. The child has to remain extremely still for ...
Newborn Tests and Injections. to Refuse or Not?
We used oral vitamin K; we felt that was much safer due to the hight leukemia rates. We also don't vaccinate. My children are 10 & 8. ...
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- It's worth doing your research and being ready to say yes or no when it's time. The medical profession does a lot of things so as to "cover all bases" assuming that e...
- the only advice i can give you is continue what you did withyour first 4 childre if you change it up this time you may regret it later and blame yourself for either gi...
- My opinion is this, everyday there are new advances in medicine, the hospital and dr's wouldn't do these tests unless there is a reason. Everyone always said, well we ...
Seeking Advise on Whether or Not to Store Cord Blood
We decided to store both our children's cord blood - it was much cheaper then ... My oldest daughter has a friend who found out she has leukemia & nobody in ...
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- Hi! We stored my sons cord blood and probably will do it again with our daughter who is due at the end of August. I look at it this way: for $1700 (apx.) you can st...
- we have donated our cord blood. We just couldn't justify the cost of storing it ourselves forever, for a "maybe" we'll use it.
- Our family has no history of any diseases that would warrant cord blood storage. For us, it was too much money for something like that. We opted instead for donation...
Cat Starting to Mark
Have him tested for feline leukemia. It may absolutely be a situation where your cat started spraying .... Tear Jerkers: Children's Books That Make You Cry ...
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- Hello, Our cat is 7 years old and he started marking too. Found out that he had a bladder infection, because neutered males are not supposed to mark. What I did was...
- Is the cat neutared/spayed. This helps a lot. Sometimes if the cat is older than about six months it may not help a lot. The cat is probably smelling the scent of t...
- Have him tested for feline leukemia. It may absolutely be a situation where your cat started spraying in reaction to this intrusion and now that he's done it, he may c...
