At 18 months of age, Gabriel was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (pre-B cell).
He received three years of chemotherapy and is now a happy, healthy, cancer-free 6 year old!

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Journal

Friday, June 22, 2007 9:50 AM CDT

Whoa! It's been six months already?

Gabe is doing fantastic- his ONC check-ups have been great. He struggles with asthma/allergies still, but nothing we can't handle. Asthma is under control as long as he's off dairy. He will be seen again by ONC in April when he will have an echo to check for heart weakness (?) Does anybody know about this? We were told heart weakness is a (new) side effect of one of the chemo meds. Gabe had the double delayed intensification treatment so he got a double dose of this stuff. Too bad I can't remember which med it was...anyway- that'll happen in April and I'm trying not to freak myself out about it. Like I can control that!

Gabe celebrated his 7th birthday in February and Seth celebrated his 14th birthday last week. I can't believe they can grow up so fast- right before my eyes. That should be illegal!

I put up some pics in the album. Nothing new- they've been up before. Steve bought me a new digital camera but it's on back order so I won't have it for a couple of weeks.When I do finally get it in, I'll take gobs of pictures to share. Until then, take care and have a great summer.

Steve, Anjie, Seth & Gabe

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