Lily’s Communion joy after leukaemia fightTHE red-haired girl with the sunny personality before me has very little memory of her childhood experience in hospital. Lily Burke with mum Jess when she was undergoing treatment for leukaemia and lost all her glorious red tresses. BELOW: Mother and daughter in happier times after Lily had recovered from the illness“My hair is down to my bum now. “When Lily was sick, I wondered if she’d get her First Communion, or see the day she would get married,” says Jess. “The worst parent on the ward.”Mother and daughter initially spent two weeks in Crumlin Hospital.

Source: Evening echo March 30, 2018 10:52 UTC