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pommpey
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Alreyt chaps. Just appealing to fellow Blades for a contribution.
In July 2009, my daughter, Amy, fell sick. At first they couldn't find out what was up with her and after a few checks, they found out it was Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. That was a bit of a shock for the 25 year old, moreso for her daughter, Francesca, who was then just 7 years old. Anyway, we got her admitted to hospital and she spent six months undergoing some pretty shitty chemotherapy. Six lots of it. In December of 2009, we found out this hadn't put her into remission so the game was for her to undergo ablative chemotherapy at Southampton General (which basically mallets your immune system) and then a Stem Cell Transplant (Bone Marrow Graft). In February 2010, the graft went in, courtesy of a brilliant, anonymous donor. Amy spent the next three months looking like she'd been hit by a Pickford's truck (literally) and emerged back in to the real world, half her weight and ravaged by the treatments. When you see this stuff on films and dcoumentaries, don't believe a word of it, because it is a living hell. We took care of Frankie during all of this and Amy came back as a daughter and monther gradually. She even found time for a holiday abroad.
While all this went on, my sister contracted breast cancer. After a brave fight, she died on October 15 2010, aged 55.
It all looked good for amy until August this year when she fell sick again and got the bad news that it was back, and because of the effect of the first treatment, any hope was lost.They gave her three weeks - she died on 20 October, aged 27.
We carried out her cremation yesterday. The funeral was attended by nearly 300 people.
I asked that everyone not donate flowers, but contribute whatever they could to a JustGiving website I'd set up. So far we have raised nearly four grand toward Cure Leukaemia. I feel we can't lose people to cancer, or leukaemia any more.
If you can contribute, fellow Bladesmen, please do. The link is http://www.JustGiving.com/Amy-Dougan.
Thanks all. UTB.
pommpey
In July 2009, my daughter, Amy, fell sick. At first they couldn't find out what was up with her and after a few checks, they found out it was Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. That was a bit of a shock for the 25 year old, moreso for her daughter, Francesca, who was then just 7 years old. Anyway, we got her admitted to hospital and she spent six months undergoing some pretty shitty chemotherapy. Six lots of it. In December of 2009, we found out this hadn't put her into remission so the game was for her to undergo ablative chemotherapy at Southampton General (which basically mallets your immune system) and then a Stem Cell Transplant (Bone Marrow Graft). In February 2010, the graft went in, courtesy of a brilliant, anonymous donor. Amy spent the next three months looking like she'd been hit by a Pickford's truck (literally) and emerged back in to the real world, half her weight and ravaged by the treatments. When you see this stuff on films and dcoumentaries, don't believe a word of it, because it is a living hell. We took care of Frankie during all of this and Amy came back as a daughter and monther gradually. She even found time for a holiday abroad.
While all this went on, my sister contracted breast cancer. After a brave fight, she died on October 15 2010, aged 55.
It all looked good for amy until August this year when she fell sick again and got the bad news that it was back, and because of the effect of the first treatment, any hope was lost.They gave her three weeks - she died on 20 October, aged 27.
We carried out her cremation yesterday. The funeral was attended by nearly 300 people.
I asked that everyone not donate flowers, but contribute whatever they could to a JustGiving website I'd set up. So far we have raised nearly four grand toward Cure Leukaemia. I feel we can't lose people to cancer, or leukaemia any more.
If you can contribute, fellow Bladesmen, please do. The link is http://www.JustGiving.com/Amy-Dougan.
Thanks all. UTB.
pommpey
