About Me
My name is Michael Green and I was born on April 28th, 1994. My mom's name is Hazel and my Dad is Ray. I have 2 older sisters, Krystal and Ashley. On January 14, 1999 I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) standard risk. My mom is keeping a journal for me for others to read. She can tell you the rest...
Michael is currently being treated at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. He is on POG 9605. During the induction phase of Michael's treatment he was very sick because he was also recovering from Hepatitis which the doctors assumed was viral in origin. After 2 weeks we were able to leave the hospital and begin our outpatient treatment but on the first trip into the hospital for treatment Michael had a seizure that they assumed was due to high blood pressure and an electrolyte imbalance.
Finally after around 6 weeks he was well enough to go home and it has seemed since then that Michael's health has progressively gotten better. He is now at the stage that you wouldn't know that he had leukemia. All of his hair has grown back and he is as active as any other little 5 year old. We are very grateful for that and now we are counting the days until his chemotherapy is finished. Michael's protocol is 130 weeks long.
Here are some pictures of my sisters and me in our dance costumes before I got sick.
Ashley is in the yellow and Krystal in the purple and of course me in the middle!!
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