Emma B was diagnosed with leukaemia when she was only 3 years old. Intense chemotherapy and maintenance treatment managed to get her into remission by her 4th birthday. Unfortunately, Emma relapsed in October 2009. She was put into remission again, and received a bone marrow transplant from her brother.Recently she was admitted to hospital again, and the doctors thought that she might have relapsed again-the worst thing that could have possibly happened.
Thankfully, Emma's mum has posted on the website and Emma has not relapsed again-yay!
This is her post:
"Very good news from Emma's doctor-it is not a leukaemia relapse which is causing Emma's latest problems. She has been very lucky indeed as we did fear the worst. There is another blood disorder called TTP which is stopping Emma's new bone marrow producing platelet cells and haemoglobin. Her white cells have recovered after some GCSF booster but the doctor says we might never find out the reason why the white cells dipped. Hopefully the TTP disorder will rectify itself but if not they can treat this with plasmas. All very complicated but manageable.
Thank you so much to everyone who has sent us kind messages and presents. They really do keep Emma smiling."
Emma remains in remission, so let's hope she can get out of hospital soon!
Dannii xxx
(If you didn't understand some of the medical terms in this post, I will be making a glossary soon.)
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