Young cancer sufferer hopes his UNBORN sister can SAVE his life

The young cancer sufferer "begs to be normal"

 

AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD boy too sick to even eat a piece of chocolate from his advent calendar is hoping his unborn sister can help cure him of his life-threatening illness.

Tommi Miller has suffered from leukaemia since he was just three-years-old.

Heartbreakingly, the boy who "begs to be normal" has seen his cancer spread to his spine, brain AND bone marrow, and he has been so unwell in hospital that he has been unable to eat anything for a whole month.

This year has witnessed a deterioration in the brave cancer sufferer’s condition but Tommi’s parents remain hopeful that his unborn sister could provide him vital stem cells and save his life.

 

Ruth, 39, said: "Our hope is to spend Christmas as a family"

 

His mum, Ruth, 39, said: "Our hope is to spend Christmas as a family and face the prospect of transplant after the new year.

"Our baby is due on January 8 and we have great hopes she will be a match for a stem cell harvest for Tommi, its the best gift we could ever give him."

Mrs Miller revealed that the only consolation in what has been a terrible year for the family would be their little boy coming home to Cambridge for Christmas.

She said: "We are still hoping to be home for Christmas but he desperately needs high dose chemo which we need to be on the ward for.

 

Despite suffering from leukaemia for nearly FIVE years, no donor match has ever been found for Tommi

 

"Not being able to go to school still, he begs to be a 'normal boy' and often has down days, misses having friends, and is housebound most of the time so we as a family find it so hard."

Despite suffering from leukaemia for nearly FIVE years, no donor match has ever been found for Tommi.

Mrs Miller added: "He is now coming in to his fifth year of treatment and clearing these disgusting cells are proving challenging, he can't go for transplant until its cleared and a donor match has been found.

"Rather than being on the ward he is having daily injections in his legs, lumbar punches and chemo direct into his spine once a week and a whole cocktail of other drugs to keep him going.

 

Tommi's parents hope that stem cells from his unborn sister can save his life

 

"He is being tube-fed and it breaks my heart that he cannot eat so much as a tiny piece of chocolate from his advent calendar. It's been about four weeks since he's eaten anything."

Tommi's parents were sadly forced to use foodbanks earlier in the year after their benefits were slashed when Tommi was given the all-clear in April last year.

Initially, when Tommi's leukaemia came back, the family were refused increased payments but the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) eventually reinstated all their payments.