Hi Everyone

My name is Jemima but everyone calls me Mima. I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia on 13th June 2007 and had to spend just over 3 weeks in hospital. I have set up this blog so that I can keep in touch with my friends and keep you up to date with what I am doing.

WE DID IT!!! - THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE SUPPORTED JEMIMA INVITES OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, WE HAVE NOW MANAGED TO BEGIN THE RESEARCH WHICH PROFESSOR MARTIN DYER WAS SO DESPERATE TO DO.

Thursday 18th June 2009

I am just going to tell you something which is really annoying me:
I would really really really like to go on a school trip and my choir are going to France for a few days next week but I can't go because I have Leukaemia and have to take too many pills and stuff like that but now something else has happened. My year are going on a school trip to Twin Lakes next week and because of my funny head thingys and because I have had a few absence episodes since my last ITMTX two weeks ago, it means that Mummy has to come with me on our trip. It just is not fair and I really want to go on my own and be with my friends.
I am angry! Oh yes, and I am on steroids!

Monday 15th June 2009

Two years ago today I started my treatment!
All I remember is feeling very poorly all the time. I had to have my bloods taken every 6 hours and a horrid pink medicine to protect my kidneys every 8 hours, I had a drip constantly for 2 weeks and had a general anaesthetic two days in a row and then once a week for the first month and loads of vin and christine, the horrible asparagus and mayonnaise jab in my leg and so much dexamethasone (steroids) I was starving and angry all the time! What a horrible time that was but at least we can forget all that now.
I am really well at the moment and enjoying lots of school, parties, rounders matches, and a lot of tennis in our garden! We have had our school exams and I did ok so that's good. We had a drama workshop for the parents last week and I read a poem about Friends which I loved and we are doing it again for some other children from a different school who are visiting us this week.
We have sports day on Friday but I won't be doing much because I can't really run very well as it hurts my ankles but it is a fun day anyway. Then we have our school fete which is just about the best day all year and I have a stall with some friends which will be great fun.
Sorry if I don't write very often these days but don't think it is because I am not well, it is because I am very well!!!