When giving birth to her precious daughter Annabel 1 month ago, doctors noticed my little sister’s blood was clinically deranged and she was kept in hospital for 9 days while they took lots of blood and ran lots of tests. 3 days after thinking she had the all clear and being sent back home, Becky was called back into hospital and was told that she has Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and will be spending the next year having intensive chemotherapy. Two days after receiving her diagnosis, Becky started her first round of chemo and she hopes to go home in the next few weeks for a little break.

Becky has had brilliant care and can’t thank the team treating her enough. In many ways Becky has said she feels lucky because without Annie, she would have never known.

28th May is World Blood Cancer Day and while what has happened to Becky is extremely rare (it’s estimated that less than 1 in 100,000 new mothers end up with leukaemia) she wants to raise awareness.

We are all so proud of Becky and she has the most wonderful support in her husband Jimmy and her precious baby girl Annie as well as all her family and friends. To help raise awareness and raise money for Blood Cancer UK, a group of family and close friends will be (attempting to) run Sheffield 10k in September.

About Blood Cancer UK:

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