Then she was given four rounds of intensive chemotherapy. The next day, she was sent to theatre and had a broviac line fitted. We turned up on this ward and it was dark, everyone was asleep, and we got put into a side room and didn't really know what was going on. We were put into an ambulance and blue-lighted to Sheffield and we got there at 11.30pm. "I went home, got a suitcase packed - I knew it was a long-term thing - and came straight back. Hollie's mum, Jennie Brookes, told Scunthorpe Live: "When they told us she had leukaemia I didn't even know what it was and I just said, 'Is that cancer?' and from then, she was put onto antibiotics and a drip and we were told that we needed to get to Sheffield Children's Hospital as soon as possible. Read more: Scunthorpe alleyway tragedy: Everything we know so far about what happened to Danielle Pinder Her devastated family were told they had to then travel to Sheffield Children's Hospital "as soon as possible", where they would stay for five weeks as Hollie underwent an operation to have a broviac line - a line to allow for long-term access to blood - fitted, and where she began a course of intensive chemotherapy to fight the leukaemia. It is a tale of brotherhood, loyalty, and valor under the most extreme duress. She was tested for anemia and sent for urgent blood tests at Scunthorpe General Hospital, and was diagnosed just hours later on the same day - June 14, 2017. Only the Brave is a fitting tribute to the men who fought the Yarnell Hill Fire. Hollie McNeill, 5, was tragically diagnosed with leukaemia at eight weeks old after a doctor at her routine check-up told her parents that she appeared pale. A brave Scunthorpe girl is celebrating being cancer-free for five years after being given a 50/50 chance of survival just weeks after she was born.
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