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Shuswap Vol. 28 No. 42 October 20, 2017
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A pair of salmon puppets are carried during a parade of the Wild Salmon Caravan in Chase on Oct. 12. For more from the event, see page A22.
Toddler to get bone marrow transplant Susan Zielinski Black Press
The family of a Salmon Arm toddler are thankful for the support from friends and strangers as they wait for her bone marrow transplant to fight a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Lorraine Pasemko said blood transfusions for her 17-month-old granddaughter Alice aren’t helping her as much anymore. Alice’s three-year-old brother Anthony, who was not the best match, will be her bone marrow donor because a match could not be found with 10 million donors in the world-wide donor bank. “They have resorted to going back to Anthony. That’s all they
have left to try,” mally seen in children. Pasemko said. Pasemko, a retired educational assistant Alice is scheduled to start chemotherat Red Deer’s Eastview apy soon and the Middle School, said her transplant is schedformer co-workers conuled for Nov. 6, she sidered bone marrow said. tests when they found Alice is being treatout about Alice, but ed at B.C. Children’s discovered donors could Alice Hospital after she not be older than 35 and was airlifted Sept. male donors were preWolter 6 with a worsening NEEDS TRANSPLANT ferred. fever from a hospital Now she understands in Salmon Arm, B.C. why it’s so important for where her family lives. young adults to donate or be tested At the Vancouver hospital Alice to address the need. was soon diagnosed with one of the “The kids that I’ve seen at the cancers known as myelodysplastic hospital waiting for bone marrow, syndromes (MDS) that is not nor- it’s just amazing. You don’t recog-
nize it until it’s your family.” She said the support her family has received has been amazing. Former co-workers collected $1,000 to help with housing, travel and Alice’s medical expenses. Another couple she didn’t even know wanted to say prayers for Alice and handed Pasemko $600. “It’s just overwhelming, the phone calls, the notes, the texts. You just feel really great that people are still supportive and believe in helping. It’s humbling.” A GoFundMe page has been set up — Help fight for baby Alice. Donations can also be Interac e-transferred to Lorraine and Larry Pasemko at pasemko.l@ telus.net.