Brave Margot Martini remains disease free
The family of little Margot Martini today received the welcome news that the battling toddler remains disease free following her life-saving bone marrow transplant earlier this month.
Baby Margot was diagnosed with an extremely rare leukaemia with dual lineage – both Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) and Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) aged just 14 months.
But newly released test results show she is free from both clones – to the delight of parents Yasser and Vicki.
Yasser said: "We are all very happy and relieved at this news and also that Margot is doing so well with her recovery at home.
"Margot will continue to have regular and ongoing tests for the next 18 months - her next bone marrow aspirate is booked for June 10.
"We are at the stage where we have now started to slowly wean Margot off some of her medications and we hope this will continue over the course of the next several weeks. "We want to get Margot to the stage where her Naso Gastric (NG) tube can be removed along with the Hickman line (intravenous line into her chest) as her dependency on IV meds, oral meds and supplemental feeding reduces.
"We hope that Margot's immune system will have recovered by the Autumn but in the meantime, we are steering clear from crowds and busy places and our family is looking forward to enjoying a quiet summer at home."
Margot's diagnosis sparked a worldwide hunt to find her perfect stem cell match, to which 50,000 people signed up.
Now the family has launched its Just One More campaign in a bid to increase the potential blood cell stem donors on UK registries from 1 million to 2.5 million.
A donor drive and charity fashion show was taking place tonight at Tettenhall College.
Her father, Yasser, was giving a speech, while her aunt, Charlotte Hathaway, who grew up with Margot's mother Vicki in Essington but now lives in Tettenhall, is helping to organise the event.
