Brave girl 5, gets all clear from cancer after doctor mistook symptoms for tonsilitis
LITTLE Isla-Mae Dunn is back in the swing of things — after getting the all-clear from leukaemia.
She smiles happily just 17 months after medics repeatedly mistook her symptoms for tonsillitis, before she was rushed to hospital.
The five-year-old was so ill after two rounds of chemo and infections which repeatedly put her in hospital that mum Laura feared the worst.
She said: “We didn’t know if Isla would make it. We had to start planning for her funeral.”
At one point, doctors had to abandon taking her off a ventilator twice.
Laura, 31, added: “They told me she died three times in the process.”
Now a series of blood tests have revealed Isla is free of the disease.
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Dad Reece, 34, from Kirkby, Notts, said of her leaving hospital: “Isla had to read a plaque and ring the bell, while people cheered.”
The family — also including Mia, 13, Noah, ten and Bonnie Grace, two — are now planning Christmas, but say Isla’s biggest wish is to meet singer George Ezra, 29.