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Can you help save Dilly?!

WHEN he was just 20-months- kicking the football - she knew “I thought he'd just be sent
old Dilly was diagnosed with leu- something was wrong. home with antibiotics, I never
kaemia and is now in desperate The family of four live in Lon- thought it would be anything like
need of a life-saving bone marrow don and it was during the first this”, Amy said.
transplant. lockdown in May 2020, Amy said Medics at the hospital took an
Now, celebrities like Mark that Dilly started to limp. X-ray and told Amy there was
Wright and Michelle Keegan have Amy said: “I started to notice nothing wrong with Dilly’s bones,
backed the desperate mum’s cam- other signs, he was pale, had that there was no break or frac-
paign to sign up to the blood stem swollen lymph nodes around his ture.
cell register. neck and armpits and had bruises They told Amy they would need
Speaking to The Sun, Amy, around the eyes...” to do a blood test, which she said
35, said her son, affectionately Following a GP appointment, didn’t initially ring alarm bells.
known as Dilly Aksehir, had been the family were then referred to But after the blood test, medics
the most smiley happy, little boy, the A&E department at the Royal told Amy to call her partner, Oguz
which was why when he stopped London Hospital. Aksehir.
Amy said: “They took us into a
side room and told us that he had
leukaemia.
From there, Amy was told her
son faced three years of treat-
ment. He has been in and out of
hospital with infections, but ini-
tially he had a great response to
chemotherapy, which he was hav- strong chemo that will get rid of blood cancer and blood disorders,
ing to make sure the leukaemia the old bone marrow. you can order a free swab kit
didn’t return. “When we were first told I from them by registering at www.
Dilly turned 4 yesterday (Au- couldn’t stop crying. Our daugh- dkms.org.uk. As Dilly has a mixed
gust 23), but instead of planning ter Aiyla is only two-years-old ethnicity with his father Turkish
his party, mum Amy is now ral- and Dilly was diagnosed when she background and his mother Eng-
lying support for people to come was just four-months. lish they have said this has made
forward to be a donor. “We’ve never really been able to it more challenging to find a do-
“If they find a match, we will do anything as a family.” nor and are appealing to as many
have to move to a ward two weeks DKMS is an international char- people to donated to help save his
before so they can blast him with ity dedicated to the fight against life.