The treatment you are given will have destroyed your old bone marrow. This means that you will not have very many white cells left. White blood cells are important to help protect your body against infection.
To keep you safe from infection in hospital you will have a bedroom of your own rather than sharing with other children. Someone from your family will be able to stay near you to look after you.
You may like to keep in touch with your brothers or sisters and school friends by video, tape recording, phone or letter. Ben’s brother and sister could talk to him through the intercom when they visited him in hospital.
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