A CALL has gone out for DIY experts to help the family of a little girl recovering from leukaemia get the family home ready for when she comes home from hospital.

Jess Stocks, two, has spent almost all the last 13 months in Sheffield Children’s Hospital.

She had a bone marrow transplant last year. 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 and she is still in hospital.

Mum Mel, 37, is spending every available minute with her at hospital meaning she hardly gets to see Jess’s big sister Macy, seven, and husband Sam. Renovation of their home at Mitchelson Avenue at Dodworth fell by by the wayside when Jess went into hospital but now the charity Pride of the Isle has promised to help get both girls’ bedrooms into a fit state and has issued a call for help.

“We don’t like asking for help, but we just haven’t been able to get it sorted with everything that’s happened,” said Mel. “We don’t know when Jess will be able to get home but when she does we don’t want her coming home to half a house.”

Anyone who can help should email info@prideoftheisle.com

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