Ruby Chiege started suffering from severe pain in her legs after arriving home from school on April 20.
A schoolgirl battling leukemia is set to receive a life-saving bone marrow transplant from her little brother.
The family returned to hospital where Ruby was given blood tests. Single mum-of-four Debra was on her own when she was taken into a private room. Ruby's results were back – she had leukaemia. “I had heard of leukaemia, but I had never read up on it. I said, ‘What’s leukaemia? You’ve got the wrong child here’. I just sank. Whatever they said to me wasn’t sinking in. I just couldn’t lose my daughter – cancer is cancer. The big C.”
“We sat him down and said, ‘Ruby needs this and you’re a match,’” support worker Debra continued. “He said he wanted to do it, he wanted to be a superhero for his sister. The bone marrow transplant started on September 22.
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