Sixteen and Suddenly Fighting- A teenager's cancer story

from Don't say the Q word · host Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

In Episode 3 we meet Nottingham Children’s Hospital patient, Ella Davey and her mum Emma. Ella was just 16 and about to start her year 10 GCSE mock exams when she woke up one morning white as a ghost. She went for what she thought would be a simple blood test only to be admitted to hospital within hours. Ella found herself on Ward E39, the teenage cancer ward, beginning a journey she and her family never expected

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