Little girl’s ‘pulled muscle’ back pain turns out to be a rare form of cancer

‘We had been by no means anticipating a most cancers prognosis’ (Image: BPM Media)

When Hannah Potter’s younger daughter first talked about her again ache, the mum-of-two thought she had simply pulled a muscle.

However inside weeks, six-year-old Flo may barely get off the couch or stroll by herself.

‘She’s all the time climbing timber and stuff so we put it all the way down to a pulled muscle or one thing,’ explains Hannah.

‘A number of days later she was nonetheless complaining of ache, and he or she has fairly a excessive ache threshold, so I contacted the docs however we couldn’t see them due to Covid.

‘In order that they stated it sounds muscular so to name again if it bought worse which I did per week later.’

When Hannah couldn’t get a face-to-face docs appointment, she took her youngster to Sir Robert Peel Neighborhood Hospital in Tamworth.

‘I took her to a walk-in centre, the place docs stated it was muscular and barely checked out her,’ Hannah tells Birmingham Dwell.

‘That occurred a few occasions after which I took her to A&E – I believed she might need an an infection in her backbone they usually advised me that I used to be being a bit dramatic.

‘I trusted the docs, so I believed them.’

Flo was recognized with a uncommon most cancers (Image: BPM Media)

Medics later suspected Flo’s ache is perhaps appendicitis.

Nonetheless, additional checks revealed that she had high-risk neuroblastoma – a uncommon type of most cancers that begins in sure nerve cells.

‘We had been advised at one level that she in all probability had childhood arthritis, so we had been by no means anticipating a most cancers prognosis,’ provides the mum.

(Image: BPM Media)

Flo started chemotherapy the day after her prognosis and began shedding her hair as a consequence of remedy.

When this occurred, Hannah shaved her head too, to assist her daughter by way of the method.

The six-year-old is presently present process 5 completely different chemotherapies, to deal with the 100 areas of most cancers all through her physique – even within the bones in her face.

Hannah and Flo after they each shaved their heads (Image: BPM Media)

The household are actually fundraising for a remedy in America that would stop the most cancers from returning.

They’ve created a and have already raised greater than £32,000 of the £250,000 wanted. 

‘There's a vaccine obtainable in New York which prices £250,000, so we’re attempting to lift cash for that,’ Hannah provides.

‘The most cancers she has a excessive fee of relapse so that will hopefully cease that.

‘If we don’t use the cash for that, then we are going to donate the cash to the entire charities which have helped us as a substitute.’