A young girl's innocuous ear infection turned out to be a form of childhood blood cancer, with doctors saying it was one of the highest counts of leukaemia they had "ever seen".
Sophie, now 12, suffered a number of ear infections that didn't seem to get better over many months before taking a turn for the worse over a six-week period.
Mum Christine Tylee, 45, and her husband Paul Berude, 51, have two other children - Emily, 15, and nine-year-old Andrew - and said that Sophie went from being a normal and happy child to developing a number of worrying symptoms.
