A brave Moruya girl is recovering in a Sydney hospital after having a bone marrow stem cell transplant on Tuesday.
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Three-year-old Moruya girl Addison Wilson-Mitchell is fighting the latest round in her brave battle with cancer.
She is today recovering in Sydney Children’s Hospital.
“She is not very well. It is a long recovery,” her mother Kristen Wilson-Mitchell said.
“Before they did it, they gave her seven days of chemotherapy. She is not eating, she is vomiting and has sores in her mouth because she has no white blood cells to defend bacteria ect.”
Mrs Wilson-Mitchell said “It was good to know there are people thinking about us” after hearing about the response to her daughters story.
"It is great to know we have such a great community,” she said.
The transplant is something that is expected to make her feel sick for a long time.
“We are having a tough time at the moment,” Mrs Wilson-Mitchell said.
“It is so hard seeing our baby girl go through so much when she should be out at the park playing like all other three year olds.”
Addison has had 15 blood transfusions, 19 platelet transfusions, three bone marrow biopsies and two operations since she was diagnosed in January.
She was confirmed as having cancer on January 12, and was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma on January 19.
“She has had eight rounds of chemotherapy over 80 days,” Mrs Wilson-Mitchell said.
“She had a stem-cell harvest one month ago and they were hoping to get three million stem cells, and they got 5.1 million.”
A account under Addison’s name is being held at the National Australia Bank in Moruya if anyone would like to help the family in this hard time.
You can also help by donating to the crowdfunding page Please help Addybear Kick Cancer's Butt.
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