Positivity: Christmas miracle for adopted girl given days to live
Posted : Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:08:05 GMT
It was just after Christmas 2003 when 6-year-old Chinese girl Kailee Wells looked up at her adoptive mother Linda and said: “Mummy, I am going to miss you when I die.”They were words no mother would want to contemplate. Linda felt like crying, but held back her tears to reply: “Sweetheart, mummies usually die before their little girls.”
She knew, however, there was was a very strong possibility Kailee would die before her. She had been diagnosed with severe aplastic anaemia when she was 5, and on many occasions doctors had told the couple their daughter had only days or weeks of life left.
But they never gave up hope.
“We always believed we were going to keep our girl and we had to keep fighting for her. If she was going to make it through then by God we were going to save her,” Owen Wells said.
Their journey took them from New Mexico, across the world to Asia, where the plight of Kailee touched the hearts of thousands of people.And this Christmas, what seemed an impossible dream has been realized after a Chinese donor who heard of her plight stepped forward and provided the marrow that has given her the gift of life.
In 2002, Kailee had been diagnosed with the rare and potentially fatal blood condition similar to leukaemia, in which her bone marrow does not produce enough blood cells.
A bone-marrow transplant was her only chance of survival. A biological sibling would have had one in four chances of being a match for the transplant. But Kailee’s case was complicated by the fact that her biological family were unknown. …..
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