You could give someone like Dolcie-Mae another chance to live.
Baby Dolcie-Mae is just a few months old, but already facing a huge challenge just to survive. The little girl was rushed from her home in Newport, Wales, to hospital when she was four weeks old and her family received the devastating news that she had hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). The diagnosis of this rare immune disorder has turned the family’s world upside down and doctors now say Dolcie-Mae needs an urgent stem cell transplant to save her life.
But so far, not a single matching donor can be found for Dolcie-Mae on stem cell registers around the world. Her family is calling on everyone who is eligible to sign up to the register while they search for someone who could save their little girl’s life. The more potential donors standing by to save lives, the more chances of finding a lifesaving match there are for every transplant patient like Dolcie-Mae.
Right now, the family are split between home in Wales and the hospital in Newcastle where Dolcie-Mae is being cared for with her mum Courtney staying by her side. She said: “No family should have to go through such an awful journey, watching their child fight a battle bigger than them.”
How can you help?
Between 16 and 30? Help save the life of someone like Dolcie-Mae by joining the register today.
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A gift of £5 a month helps build a stem cell register that gives everyone the best chance of survival.
A gift of £10 a month helps lifesaving transplants to happen – giving as many people, like Dolcie-Mae, as possible a second chance of life.
A gift of £15 a month could help pay for our umbilical cord collection programme – making little lifesavers of babies only minutes old!
£15 goes a long way to helping our scientists conduct ground-breaking research that will save lives over the next 50 years.
£40 could sign up a new lifesaving stem cell donor who could go on to save a life like Dolcie-Mae's.
£90 could pay for three hours of invaluable support from a post-transplant nurse for patients and families.
Help give my baby girl a second chance at life. A stem cell transplant from a stranger - someone like YOU - could be their only hope. By signing up to the stem cell register, you could give hope to families like ours. Please join the stem cell register.
Courtney - Dolcie-Mae's mum
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Between 16 and 30? Help save the life of someone like Dolcie-Mae by joining the register today.