Archie N's quilt    (Quilt Completed)

Thank you

Archie said thank you so much he absolutely loved it you done a great job :) xxx

Finished photos

Individual squares

Card

Stitched by: Bev Stokes

Biography

Archie was a healthy baby and we didn't think he had any health issues. His sister was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in 2022 and we tested Archie to see if he could be a donor to save his sister`s life. But his sister ended up saving his life (she did have a bone marrow transplant from a stranger in Newcastle in march 2022) because he had cancer cells in his blood.

He is treated in Bristol where he had to have a Hickman line fitted which he was very scared of but has got used to in the end. He had a stem cell transplant in August 2023. The donor was a stranger.

He then developed an aggressive form of GVHD which is skin rashes following grafting after transplant. He had to have a heavy dose of chemotherapy and he had to be in isolation for 5 half months.

He was discharged at the end of December 2023 then had to readmitted with aggressive sickness. He went back and forth to walk in and local hospital because he had an ng tube which kept coming out. He has follow up appointments in Bristol and Cardiff every few months. He also only has blood tests now every 6 months.


He is doing really well in full time school