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My brave daughter, 12, has beaten cancer for a FOURTH time after a miracle stranger saved her life
After 128 days in an isolation bubble following the op, she is finally free from the disease
YOUNG Amelie Coelho Flatt has beat cancer for a fourth time — by spending months in a bubble.
The 12-year-old was diagnosed with leukaemia at three and it kept returning despite numerous types of treatment.
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But Amelie, 12, of Stotfold, Beds, was saved by a stem cell transplant thanks to a donor in Germany who was the only match on global bone marrow registers.
After 128 days in an isolation bubble following the op, she is finally free from the disease.
Mum Sofia said: “We can’t thank that stranger enough, as he was Amelie’s only chance of survival.
"It was tough for her being in isolation in the bubble - all she wanted to do was go home to be with her younger brother.
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"She is celebrating now, and just enjoying doing the simple things in like seeing friends and going swimming - all the things that she hasn’t been able to do in isolation.’
Amelie was diagnosed in July 2015 after vomiting before she was due to attend a birthday party.
She added: "I didn’t think anything of it at first - I just thought she had a sickness bug and so did the GP, who gave her lucozade to drink.
"But after a few days I still wasn’t happy, she was very lethargic, and so I took her to A and E.
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"They thought it was a urine infection and gave her antibiotics, but she wasn’t in pain, so I wasn’t convinced with that diagnosis.
"The following day she was lying on the sofa and she was sick again, and I knew that she didn’t look right."
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Sofia, who is set to walk 100k across the Sahara desert in October to raise funds for DKMS, said: "She has always wanted to go to Paris and absolutely loved it. We climbed the Eiffel Tower and ate croissants.
"But more than anything she now just wants to live a normal life, and do the things her friends do."
A spokeswoman for DKMS Foundation said: "The fact that Amelie is now doing so well after being diagnosed with blood cancer four times shows the power of the stem cell donor register.
"She and Sofia have been through some of the hardest circumstances imaginable."
For more information about the fundraising visit @ams_army2024.
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