An Aspley family 'remain positive' as their 2-year-old son fights against an aggressive form of cancer that has spread from his stomach all the way up into his skull. Tramaine Donachie, from Aspley, was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive childhood cancer called neuroblastoma in August 2021 after several visits to the doctor and hospital about his stomach issues.
The 2-year-old started suffering with stomach pain in February 2021 and the doctors told the family it was constipation, but as things got progressively worse, his mother started to question the cause of his issues. Tramaine started losing lots of weight, stopped walking and was crying in agony, and had several visits to A&E at Queen's Medical Centre.
Leah Sisson, mother of Tramaine, was told June 27 that her son had leukaemia but a scan of his abdomen showed a mass and further tests found his first tumour. The 27-year-old, from Aspley, said: "I was so angry at the fact I'd been trying to get him seen for months, we got the full diagnosis August 3, we got showed the scan and the tumour was consuming the whole of the stomach. I was so angry, the stomach mass had been left to grow. His bone marrow was 90 per cent cancer, we felt relieved someone had finally listened and he was able to get seen properly. The most important thing is now that we knew, we could help him."
