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ok my turn to rant , just found out that my 17 yr old nephew is in the hospital because his leukemia after 9yrs in remission is back . he was born with down syndrome as well .Stephen has attended a regular school and this past june he was voted prom king and his date was prom queen . I went to his hockey game 2 weeks ago , he plays in a handicap league. He was so glad I could make it to his game, he scored 2 goals . the coach told me I should come to every game .He is treated just like any other kid , him and I joke around alot . Right now he is going to under go heavy chemo as they say he because of the down syndrome his chances of survival is about 30%. He is at sick kids hospital in Toronto where he was treated till the age of 8 , now they CEO has to approve for him to stay at the kids hospital because he will turn 18 at the end of the month . his doctor has requested for him to stay there for 1 mth and started treatment because of Stephen history there . They are going to see how this goes as there is also 2 hospitals that are working on some other forms of treatment . Right now all he wants to do is go home because of his birthday and Christmas coming . I am glad I was able to his hockey game . at this point all we can do is hope that he can beat it .
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