Hendrix’s Radiothon Story

For 14 years, Nicole worked arsenic an oncology caregiver astatine the Alberta Children’s Hospital. It was intolerable to judge that 1 of her children would necessitate attraction connected the portion she worked connected each those years.

Last August, aft a mates days of fever that turned into a sore tummy, Nicole thought her six-year-old lad Hendrix mightiness person appendicitis. She headed to the Alberta Children’s Hospital Emergency Department to get it checked out. Seeing however bushed and airy helium was, the docs called for bloodwork. When an oncology workfellow walked successful and sat down, Nicole knew the quality wasn’t going to beryllium good. Her encephalon went a cardinal miles an hr erstwhile helium said it was decidedly leukemia. How could this be? Hadn’t she earned immoderate benignant of exemption aft each her years of helping kids with cancer??

Very quickly, she and Tyler had to travel to grips with Hendrix’s attraction protocol and each that their household was going to person to navigate implicit the adjacent 2.5 years. Her colleagues connected the portion overwhelmed them with enactment – which they needed. Those archetypal fewer weeks were truly hard arsenic Hendrix endured countless IV pokes and needles.

Only a fewer weeks earlier Hendrix was diagnosed, a caller immunotherapy cause called Blinatumomab (aka Blina) became portion of the modular of attraction for children warring his disease (acute lymphoblastic leukemia). Clinical trials proved that endurance rates roseate to 97 percent and this was large comfortableness to Nicole and Tyler, successful spite of the information that it added an further 8 weeks to his treatment.

Blina is administered arsenic an infusion implicit the people of 2 4-week cycles. Children are hooked up to an IV pump that they transportation successful a tiny backpack for the full time. At first, Hendrix wasn’t definite if this was a bully idea, but it didn’t instrumentality agelong for him to recognize that it was amended than having to beryllium successful the hospital. Soon helium was backmost astatine schoolhouse with his backpack resting connected a seat beside him. At night, the backpack was tucked into furniture with him.

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Nicole is grateful that this advancement successful attraction has travel on successful clip to assistance her son. There is inactive a agelong mode to go, however, it gives her anticipation for aboriginal patients that caller drugs similar Blina that person overmuch little toxicity volition beryllium disposable to assistance children who are diagnosed successful the future.

While she has ever known that the oncology programme astatine the Alberta Children’s Hospital is 1 of the best, Nicole is seeing first-hand however the compassionate and adept attraction of the squad she’s worked with for implicit a decennary is redeeming her sons life.