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ST. STEPHEN – Five-year-old Gabrielle Bartlett-Vaillancourt was wound up last Friday, May 16.
She climbed onto the lap of her mom, Cynthia Bartlett. She crawled up onto her mom’s shoulder, smiling triumphantly at visitors as she sat precariously high in the large rocking chair. She tossed her new Foxy stuffed fox animal into the air and bopped her mom on the nose with it a time or two.
In essence, she was a typical little kid showing off for visitors and soaking up the limelight. Not bad for a youngster who is currently undergoing chemotherapy.
“Believe me, she didn’t have this much energy in the hospital,” laughed Bartlett as she good naturedly wrestled her daughter into a sitting position once more and warned her of the hazards of climbing on the backs of rocking chairs.
Gabrielle was diagnosed March 29 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a form of leukemia that affects the body’s white blood cells that fight infection. Her dad, Andre Vaillancourt had taken her to the hospital for treatment for a nosebleed that wouldn’t stop.
Gabrielle came home the weekend of May 10 after a stay in the IWK Hospital for Sick Children that involved, according to Bartlett, some pretty intensive treatments. For part of her stay, Gabrielle was deemed to be a high-risk patient, said Bartlett, and needed treatments that were particularly hard on her....
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