Brave girl 5, gets all clear from cancer after doctor mistook symptoms for tonsilitis

LITTLE Isla-Mae Dunn is back in the swing of things — after getting the all-clear from leukaemia.

She smiles happily just 17 months after medics repeatedly mistook her symptoms for tonsillitis, before she was rushed to hospital.



Brave girl 5, gets all clear from cancer after doctor mistook symptoms for tonsilitis
Isla-Mae pictured on the swings after getting the all-clear from cancer

Brave girl 5, gets all clear from cancer after doctor mistook symptoms for tonsilitis
Isla-Mae was so ill after two rounds of chemo and infections which repeatedly put her in hospital

The five-year-old was so ill after two rounds of chemo and infections which repeatedly put her in hospital that mum Laura feared the worst.

She said: “We didn’t know if Isla would make it. We had to start planning for her funeral.”

At one point, doctors had to abandon taking her off a ventilator twice.

Laura, 31, added: “They told me she died three times in the process.”
Now a series of blood tests have revealed Isla is free of the disease.

Dad Reece, 34, from Kirkby, Notts, said of her leaving hospital: “Isla had to read a plaque and ring the bell, while people cheered.”

The family — also including Mia, 13, Noah, ten and Bonnie Grace, two — are now planning Christmas, but say Isla’s biggest wish is to meet singer George Ezra, 29.



Brave girl 5, gets all clear from cancer after doctor mistook symptoms for tonsilitis
The moment Isla-Mae rings the bell