You will need your central line for a few months for blood tests and any other treatment that you may need. It will not stop you playing or going to school but you will not be able to go swimming.
You will be given some treatment before you can have your transplant. It helps to get your body ready for the transplant. For some children this treatment is only a couple of days but for others it can last up to 2 weeks. This treatment may include chemotherapy or radiotherapy or both.
Chemotherapy is a special treatment with medicine. These medicines may be given through your line or into your mouth. 
Their main job is to kill any cells that don’t work properly in your body and to destroy your own bone marrow cells so that they cannot fight with the new bone marrow cells when they are given to you.
Ben found it helped to think of the chemotherapy as members
of an army.
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