Jacob still fighting
Jacob Waldock, aged five, remains in a stable but serious condition and is fighting off blood infections which have complicated his bone marrow transplant at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital. Though ehgraftment occurred last 1 Friday, there had'been little change in his condition, a hospital spokeswoman, Ms Nicole Brodie, said yesterday. “What doctors hope is that the engrafted marrow can make enough white blood cells to fight off Jacob’s infection and get him through this rocky period,” she said. Jacob’s bone marrow transplant was originally planned for August 5, but a series of infections delayed it until August 19.— P.A. ' '■ ' v
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