Brave 15-Year-Old Beats Massive Odds to Survive 2 Forms of Cancer

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Deryn Blackwell, 15, was diagnosed of leukaemia when he was just 10. 2 years later, he came down with Langerhans cell sarcoma, an extremely rare and aggressive cancer, and was given just days to live. He had four bone marrow transplants and had to be isolated in a room with no windows for five months to help battle his cancer.

As his mum, dad, and 11-year-old brother feared the worst, his body miraculously braced up to producing white blood cells to fight the cancerous cells.

Now, the teenager has left doctors and experts speechless by surviving both cancers and returning to school.

His excited mum, Callie Blackwell, 35, who never thought or dared to hope that she would once again see him return to school, shared: “Buying his uniform with Deryn was so hard for me. I was picking out his trousers and I suddenly got a huge lump in my throat. Deryn asked me ‘why are you crying?’ and I said ‘I didn’t expect you to finish an advent calendar let alone go back to school’…His immune system is even better than mine now he’s done that well. Deryn still struggles with mobility a bit and he gets very tired. But the main reason for going back(to school) was so he can develop emotionally and socially in that way teenagers, particularly boys, need to at that age.”

Sharing his excitement, Deryn’s also shared: “It’s a lot of fun to be back (to school), it has definitely changed a lot. Some people haven’t even realised I’m back because I look normal. People are only just starting to catch on that I am back. It was mum’s idea, initially I didn’t want to come back because I had been away for so long. But I’m very happy to be back now and I’m really settling in. I spent about 18 months in a room on my own and five months in a room which had no windows so this is very different.”

After remarkably going into remission Deryn’s now looking forward to going to his prom as he works on passing his GCSEs and going on to study biochemistry.

Source: Mirror UK