Brave Anna back in surgery after breaking her arm
BRAVE Anna Drysdale has had her return to the UK put on hold after breaking her arm.
The youngster, who has fought cancer twice, was rebuilding her strength when she fell, badly breaking her humerus, the bone where her cancer was first found.
The nine-year-old has been in the US since the start of the year having immunotherapy, which was funded in full by a mystery Sunday Express reader after we reported on her plight.
She flew through five cycles of gruelling treatment and in July was told there was no sign of cancer in her body – but her return has now been put back.
Mother Keeley said: “She was having swimming lessons to try and get the arm moving more when she had a fall.
“She broke the arm right through the new bone graft she had previously in treatment.
“This happened in the second week of August, so it was lots of X-rays and scans to keep an eye on it, but unfortunately the break was so bad that it needed another operation.
“She needed a lot of metal work in her arm so underwent surgery to keep the he arm together as much as they could.”
Unfortunately Anna’s bone had been weakened by her cancer, and she has now had stem cells and bone marrow shots to help restore the blood supply.
Keeley said: “The broken arm wasn’t healing at all because the blood supply totally failed so she then had to have more surgery to have part of the bone removed and replaced with a bone graft from her hip.
“So now it is another period of slow recovery for her. We think we will be here around another three months, so we are looking at a return to the UK around Christmas. We are hoping it will be a peaceful one! “We are lucky to be surrounded by the best doctors and as always Anna has done it all with her brave smile on her face and just got on with it. We are very proud of her.”
Anna, Chipping
Norton in the Cotswolds, had her £460,000 treatment at New York’s private MSK cancer hospital paid for by a generous reader following our Christmas appeal.
The youngster had faced a race against time to have the new form of immunotherapy – not available in the UK – after being diagnosed with a rare osteosarcoma in 2017. from