Don’t stop me now! Watch a 4-year-old girl run to the bell to mark the end of years of cancer treatment
This beautiful video shows a four-year-old girl ringing the cancer-free bell after battling cancer for the past three years.
Phoebe Ashfield, from Dudley, West Midlands, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2019 at seven months old.
During her three years of treatment, she relapsed three times.
Her mother, Emma Wyke, 30, captured the heartwarming moment when her daughter rang the bell for free treatment, surrounded by nurses cheering Phoebe on and giving her well-deserved applause.
At some point during Phoebe’s treatment, Emma was warned that she might not make it, so this moment of ringing the doorbell was a sigh of relief after years of emotional torment.
Phoebe Ashfield, from Dudley, West Midlands, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2019 at just seven months old and relapsed three times during her three-year treatment
Emma said: ‘At some stage in her treatment I was told she won’t make it and I need to prepare for the worst.
“It is devastating and heartbreaking to watch my baby daughter go through all of this.
“When Phoebe was first diagnosed I thought they had the wrong child, and it just can’t be my daughter because all she had was a cold and a respiratory infection and it can’t be cancer.
Her mom captured the heartwarming moment when her daughter rang the doorbell while surrounded by nurses cheering and applauding Phoebe
Phoebe relapsed three times during her three years of treatment, as she was first diagnosed when she was seven months old
“When she finally rang the doorbell, it’s a mix of emotions, you want to cry tears of happiness, but you’re still worried or wondering if it will come back, you don’t really know how to feel.
Phoebe started chemotherapy, but unfortunately it wasn’t strong enough to keep the cancer away. She relapsed in June 2019 where she had to go for a Car-T therapy.
“That meant she took her own stem cells and modified them to fight the cancer, only to relapse in September.
Her mother, Emma Wyke, 30, said: “When Phoebe was first diagnosed I thought they had the wrong child, and it just can’t be my daughter”
At some point during Phoebe’s treatment, her mother, Emma, was warned that she might not make it
Emma is now urging people to sign up as a stem cell donor through DKMS and Anthony Nolan, saying: ‘Without these selfless people, adults and children, my daughter wouldn’t be here to tell this story’
“It was successful until January 2020 when she relapsed for the third time and required a stem cell transplant, and time was against us.
“If one thing comes out of this is that you register to become a stem cell donor through DKMS and Anthony Nolan, because without these selfless people, adults and children, my daughter wouldn’t be here telling this story.
“If you can register, you can save someone’s life.”