Hi Waterbabe,

Sorry to hear that you have had to join our club - but there is lots of lovely support here.

We have a toddler with leukaemia - but he has the myeloid type (AML) and this will partly drive how long the treatment is.  Here in the UK I believe that lymphoblastic leukaemia ALL is generally three years of treatment for boys (2 years for girls) - but once the child is in remission, there is alot of time at home.  With AML the treatment is short but sharp - five or so cycles of heavy duty chemo and we spent most of 8 months as an in-patient in hospital, but this is longer than normal as he took so long to recover from his first cycle.

So one you know the specific type of leukaemia he has - you will have a treatment plan and can start to plan your lives a bit better around this.The first goal will be getting him into remission and at least with leukaemia, you will know quite quickly - generally withing 3 to 4 weeks or so whether it is working as the bone marrow will show a decline in the leukaemia cells.

  Best wishes Dalton (Joanne)

Hi Waterbabe,

Sorry to hear that you have had to join our club - but there is lots of lovely support here.

We have a toddler with leukaemia - but he has the myeloid type (AML) and this will partly drive how long the treatment is.  Here in the UK I believe that lymphoblastic leukaemia ALL is generally three years of treatment for boys (2 years for girls) - but once the child is in remission, there is alot of time at home.  With AML the treatment is short but sharp - five or so cycles of heavy duty chemo and we spent most of 8 months as an in-patient in hospital, but this is longer than normal as he took so long to recover from his first cycle.

So one you know the specific type of leukaemia he has - you will have a treatment plan and can start to plan your lives a bit better around this.The first goal will be getting him into remission and at least with leukaemia, you will know quite quickly - generally withing 3 to 4 weeks or so whether it is working as the bone marrow will show a decline in the leukaemia cells.

  Best wishes Dalton (Joanne)