I want my hair to grow back ..I don’t want to be a boy any more
EXCLUSIVE CHEMO TOT’S PLEA TO MUM Brave wee Adeline desperate to get her lovely locks back after cancer ordeal
A BRAVE little girl who has been battling a rare blood cancer for two years has finally received a lifesaving stem cell transplant.
But now Adeline Davidson has a new battle – trying to grow her hair back.
The side effects of chemotherapy have caused problems with her oxygen levels and the embedding of the stem cells has been giving the four-year-old pains in her back, stomach and legs.
But the only thing she is upset about is losing her lovely brown locks. In a video taken in her hospital bed, Adeline heartbreakingly tells her mum Steph, 27: “I want my hair to grow back like a girl. I want my hair to grow back now. “I don’t want to be a boy any more.” The tot had long hair until it began falling out six days after her transplant.
But a fortnight on, her hair has completely gone, leaving her confused.
Steph said: “She’s been asking nurses if this means she is a boy now. She sees herself with short hair and can’t get it out of her mind.
“She defines beauty as having long hair, like all the Disney princesses. It is so confusing for her.”
Steph has told her she is still beautiful and she will soon have luscious locks again.
She has been offered wigs but her mum laughed: “I know what Adeline is like, she would complain they were itchy.”
The bubbly youngster from Alness, Ross-shire, has made a remarkable recovery, singing and chatting as her mum spoke about how well she is doing.
She has been battling myelodysplasia since February 2019. Her mum and dad Jordan, 29, begged for stem cell donors after they struggled to find a match for her. Finally, on March 30, it went ahead.
Adeline will be kept in isolation with her mum for at least another week and then, if her blood tests allow and her condition stabilises, will be moved to a regular ward in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, when it is hoped her dad will get in to visit her.
But she won’t be able to see her younger siblings, twins Jude and Josie, who turn two this month, until she gets out of hospital in another eight weeks. While her future is brighter, Steph is appealing for donors to help others desperately needing a transplant. To register to donate, go to: www.dkms.org.uk/ register-now or www.anthonynolan.org/help-save-a-life/ join-stem-cellregister.