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Cancer Major 
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TITLE |
For
the Love of My Child, The Anissa Ayala Story (1993) |
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DISABILITY |
Cancer
Leukaemia |
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A 16 year
old girl has leukaemia and needs a bone marrow |
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transplant.
In these cases matching is all important and |
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difficult to
achieve. Her parents have another child in the hope |
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that this
child could be a donor. |
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When
Anissa's parents tell her they are planning to have |
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another
child she thinks at first it is to replace her after her |
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death But
the parents are desperate after an extended |
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search has
failed to come up with a donor. |
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Meanwhile
Anissa is treated with interferon for her high blood |
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cell count
which produces side effects. Her classmates are |
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short on
understanding. But with a young boy also with |
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leukaemia
she goes to a special night at her school to give a |
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speech in
the hope of improving understanding and finding |
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There's a
patch when the film gets really corny as the wife |
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seduces her
husband as the preliminary to 'begetting' the |
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necessary
child. And the father gives a speech to the |
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Vietnam
Veterans of America. |
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The baby is
born, a girl, suitable as a donor and Anissa |
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undergoes
massive radiation treatment in preparation for the |
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bone marrow
transplant. Besides losing all her hair she |
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learns that
she will never be able to have children herself. But |
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As TV
treatments go not too bad and does inform if not involve. |
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Notes
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