Intro to Sally

This is Sally

In March Sally hurt her back in a fall doing gymnastics.

She complained that her back hurt at school when leaning back
on the chairs, this pain came and went.

We had our holiday to Cornwall as usual and she had a few days of pain but we put it down to gymnastics on the beach, maybe a pulled
muscle?

Then in September after starting in year 6 Sally complained
her back was really sore.

 One night she woke in the with severe pain in her back left side and it was travelling round to the front, we took Sally to Wigan A&E, she was checked over and given Antibiotics as they suspected a lung infection following an X-ray.

The full course was taken and she felt better but 3 days later on the Friday she came out of school in tears as her back really hurt!

We took her back to Wigan A&E and pushed for another X-ray, when this came back they said
there was a shadow on the left side and were concerned enough to arrange a CT scan following day, Sunday.

The CT scan was done we had to wait as the specalist had to look at a 'mass' that showed up on the scan.

A very anxious time and we were given the devastating news something was there on the inside on the ribs growing into the lung space.

We were then referred to Manchester Children's Hospital Ward 84........Oncology!!

Sally was admitted on Tuesday 3rd October. Looking around the ward & seeing the other children reality kicked in. Sally was the only one with hair!!

We were told that they would need to do a biopsy, take a bone marrow sample from her hip. and install a hickman line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickman_line

A week later, whilst Sally was on PGL with school, we were given the results by DR  Brennen. Sally had  Ewings Sarcoma ( a rare child bone cancer )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing%27s_sarcoma

This can be fixed with chemotherapy and surgery and the prognosis is good.