THE mum of a little girl who has spent almost all of this year in hospital is facing a race against time to complete specialist training she needs in order to bring her home for Christmas.
Jess Stocks, two, had a bone marrow transplant six months ago after being diagnosed with leukaemia. At her last check-up she was ‘leukaemia-free’ but the various medication she requires to help stop her immune system rejecting her donor’s bone marrow has made her seriously ill.
She was able to spend a few weeks at at home in Dodworth over the summer but has been back in Sheffield Children’s Hospital for the last eight weeks. She’s suffered serious side effects including a spate of seizures.
She is unable to eat or drink and has to be fed through a tube through her chest directly into her bloodstream - the main reason she cannot come home.
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