Stan's mother has been diagnosed with leukemia, a type of cancer in which abnormal white blood cells grow in the blood and bone marrow. The doctors and nurses are helping Stan's mother get treatment at the hospital to stop the leukemia from growing further, which requires her to stay at the hospital to receive strong medicine. While his mother receives treatment, Stan sometimes helps by staying with his grandparents so his mother can focus on getting better.

1. Stan’s Story
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2. Everything changes
Winter becomes spring, spring becomes summer
Summer changes to fall and back to winter again
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3. Stan has changed too!
Once upon a time, he was just a baby
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4. Now he is bigger
Stan is not a baby anymore
He likes to play
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5. Everything grows
Most things grow in a healthy way
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6. Sometimes growing is not good
Like if a weed grows in the garden it needs
to come out so the garden can be healthy
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7. The body grows too, mostly normal
Sometimes not good things grow inside the body
We don’t want this to happen
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8. This happened inside Momma’s body, inside her
blood
It is called Leukemia and it is inside Momma’s veins
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9. It is not like a cold you can catch
No one else has Leukemia and you can not
get it from hugging or kissing
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10. The doctors and nurses are helping
Momma take the Leukemia away, to stop it
from growing
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11. The doctors need Momma to get
strong medicine in the hospital
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12. Momma needs to stay and sleep at the
hospital for a while
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13. Sometimes Stan helps by staying with
Nana and Poppy while Momma is away
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14. Stan, Momma, and Daddy all love being
home together and Momma will be
home soon!
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