Keep Fighting Noah – The Amazing Noah

Greg Miller

Hello Noah, keep on fighting – you will get through this. Back around 2000 I donated my bone marrow for a boy with aplastic anemia and i keep donating platelets and plasma every two weeks to help people get better. If you ever need blood, platelets or plasma, i’ll be glad to get tested to see if i am a match to help you out. Good luck to you , mom and dad — get better and I hope I can post updates on your recovery so we can all follow.

Symptoms

ALL symptoms start when leukemia cells crowd out normal blood cells in bone marrow. The types of symptoms your child has will depend on the numbers of cancer cells and healthy blood cells.

Children with B-cell ALL may:

Bleed or bruise more easily than usual

Feel very tired

Get infections more often

Lose their appetite

Other symptoms include:

Bone or joint pain

Limping

Fever

Pale skin

Red or purple spots called petechiae on the skin

Swollen lymph nodes in the neck, underarms, or groin

If the cancer cells travel to your child’s liver and spleen, these organs can grow large enough to make the belly swell. In some boys, the testicles can also grow larger.