HISTORY OF SICKNESS

• June 24, 2006: Amna felt her first fever that lasted a week: her parents gave her fever medicine thinking it was just a regular fever.

• First week in July: the fever worsened and Amna felt pains in her leg bone, and bled from her nose and gums.

• July5, 2006: her parents brought Amna to the hospital, and the doctor diagnosed rheumatism fever. After 2 days the fever cooled down. Nevertheless, the doctor asked for hospitalization.

• 8 July 2006: at 3am Amna felt pain in her leg bone, and fell in a state of shock and intense pain. She was also bleeding very much from her mouth and nose: her parents brought her to Zainol Abidin hospital (Banda Aceh) to be hospitalized.

• 8 – 19 July 2006: during her eleven-days stay in the hospital, Amna received a transfusion of 5 bags of blood (1.250 cc) after her hemoglobin fell down to 5,5. The doctor continued to believe she was suffering from rheumatism fever.

• 19 July 2006: Feeling better, Amna left the hospital.

• 28th of July: Amna is brought back to the hospital by her parents after another crisis. At that point the doctor takes into account the possibility of her diagnoses being leukemia and says she must be hospitalized. In the hospital her hemoglobin goes down until 9,2 and she receives again a blood transfusion of 2 bags (500 cc): the doctor diagnoses Anemia Aplasthic.

• 28 July – 3 August: nothing changes and no response is given to her condition: they just don’t know why is she sick. The parents decide to bring her to a hospital in Penang, Malaysia.

• August 4, 2006: Amna and her parents check in at the Gleneagles Medical Center of Penang and are directly in hand of doctor Leong Kim Wah, specialized doctor for leukemia in Gleneagles hospital Penang.

• August 8: Doctor Kim Wah diagnoses leukemia type AML.

• After consultation with doctor Leong Kim Wah, they are told her illness is at a level of 70% (30% recovery).

• Because the cost in Gleneagles hospital is too expensive, and having received advise from family friends, Amna’s parents transfer her to Pulau Penang hospital, where she is seen by leukemia specialist Dr. Yeuh.

• Dr. Yeuh explains the step by step process of leukemia AML medicinal treatment. The first phase is to take 6 months and includes chemo and antibiotic medicinal treatment as many as 6 times. Amna’s first chemo starts on the 15th of August: she receives 1 bag of blood (200 cc) by the end on the 24th of August. After consultation with Dr.Yeuh they are told her illness is at a level of 40-50%. She receives another transfusion of blood again on the 29th of August and starts her second chemo on the 13th of September 2006.

• Amna's third chemo started on october 6.