Our little girl kept complaining of a sore leg but the truth was heartbreaking

WHEN little Marley Shaw began to limp, her dad and mom thought she may need broken her knee.

The household took their two-year-old daughter to hospital the place medics performed blood assessments.

Little Marley Shaw had been complaining that she had a sore leg, so her dad and mom took her to hospital to search out the triggerCredit score: BPM

To their horror, docs instructed the household that their little woman's sore leg had really been right down to leukaemia.

Leukaemia is a sort of blood most cancers that impacts cells in bone marrow and assaults the immune system.

Normally of leukaemia, there isn't a apparent trigger.

It's a most cancers that results in the physique making too many irregular white blood cells and means the physique is much less doubtless to have the ability to defend itself towards an infection.

Marley, who lives in Uttoxeter with dad and mom Callum Shaw and Charley Straughton is now present process therapy for most cancers.

The household got the information simply earlier than Christmas, with Marley beginning her therapy at Royal Derby Hospital on December 23.

She has since been transferred and is presently receiving therapy on the Queen's Medical Centre, in Nottingham.

Dad Callum, 23, who works as a salt miner, stated the one cause that they had taken their little woman to hospital was as a result of she had been limping.

Talking to Stoke-on-Trent Reside he stated: "My accomplice Charley was with Marley on the Royal Derby Hospital since you're solely allowed one individual in along with her at a time, and I used to be watching my rugby crew play after I obtained a cellphone name saying the physician wished to see each of us collectively.

"You hear that and you understand immediately that it is not going to be excellent news. So we simply needed to put together ourselves for it and attempt to assume positively.

"However that drive to the hospital felt the longest drive I've ever needed to make in my life; it was horrible."

Marley will want bone-marrow assessments and lumbar punctures and the household have stated she's 'taking all of it in her stride'.

They stated that she has even taken to 'bossing the nurses round' however continues to be a 'little star'.

Due to her therapy plan, Marley is having to spend lengthy durations of time on the hospital.

Uttoxeter is slightly below an hours drive from Nottingham and beneficiant household and buddies have raised funds in order that the household can keep in an Air BnB to be near their daughter.

The unique fund elevating purpose arrange by Uttoxeter Rugby Membership had been £800, simply sufficient for the couple to have the ability to keep in a home shut by.

However donations far surpassed that and the household are actually elevating cash to assist pay for beds and iPads for kids on the ward, in addition to cash for the ward normally.

Marley nonetheless has to go to Nottingham every week however is now capable of obtain her weekly chemotherapy remedies at Royal Stoke College Hospital.

It will imply she will be seen faster if any points along with her therapy come up.

Fundraising has now surpassed £16,000 on GoFundMe.

The household stated: "We're all extraordinarily grateful for the arduous work and care of each Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham and Royal Stoke College Hospital.

"Our deepest thanks for all your assist thus far, please proceed to share the fundraiser and donate the place attainable. Thanks."