A mother who lost her 12-year-old boy to leukaemia diagnosis has undertaken 12 physical challenges in 12 months to raise money to “help save the lives of other children”. Amy Dixon, 46, a solicitor with the Crown Prosecution Service from Hartlepool, said she was certain her eight-year-son Sam would pull through after his diagnosis on November 8, 2015.
The day after his diagnosis, he started the first of three rounds of chemotherapy and then received a bone marrow transplant on February 12, 2016, but his body gradually “rejected” the transplant, causing him to become “extremely poorly” and his lungs to start failing.
Sam ended up being isolated at home or in hospital and could not go to school – and he developed graft versus host disease (GvHD), where white blood cells attack the patient’s body.
