Margot Martini was diagnosed with Leukaemia on 7 October 2013, aged almost 14 months old. Margot had an extremely rare form of Leukaemia, which had dual lineage – both Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) and Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML). The consultant haematologist told us that he has only seen 3 such cases in the last 10 years.

Margot was primarily cared for by Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), initially spending 10 days in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). She then transferred to Elephant Ward and later to Robin Ward where she underwent her bone marrow transplant in isolation.

Great Ormond Street Hospital is the UK’s largest paediatric centre for many services. The hospital is renowned for being one of the best facilities of it’s kind anywhere in the world and we took comfort from the fact that this was one of the very best places for Margot to be receiving specialist care and medical attention.

Thank you for all your support.

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