We have decided to bring back what was once a very popular feature on our old blog – Our Foodie Friday Recipes! Every Friday we will post easy recipes for the harried onco mom to make for her child with cancer – recipes that are not difficult, are aimed at tittilating those chemo-affected tastebuds, and which are also very nutritional for a child with cancer so that they can build up their immune system. Enjoy!
I heard your voice in the wind today
and I turned to see your face;
The warmth of the wind caressed me
as I stood silently in place.
I felt your touch in the sun today
as its warmth filled the sky;
The types of cancers that develop in children are different from those that develop in adults. Lifestyle or environmental risk factors don’t play a role; it is usually the result of DNA changes in cells that take place very early in life. Because of major treatment advances, more than 80% of children with cancer now […]
Children with Down Syndrome carry an elevated risk of developing Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL), the most common paediatric cancer.
When a child has cancer, they very often have to stay at home due to the fact that the cancer itself and the treatments used to fight it can weaken the body’s immune system making it easy for them to catch germs and get ill, and because their system is so weak they will get […]
We recently did a blogpost on Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV), a common — and often costly — problem among patients with cancer. Chemotherapy drugs are very powerful and they cause damage to many growing cells, including some healthy cells. This damage causes the side effects of chemotherapy, which can include Nausea and Vomiting; Diarrhoea; Constipation, […]
This candle burns for Little Fighters who lost the Battle
🎗Always in our Hearts 🎗
