Easter Ross family of a three-year-old with a rare genetic mutation are hosting a Highland capital donor drive in a bid to find a stem cell match for surgery
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Young Josie Davidson from Alness suffers with dnajc21, a condition her older sister Adeline also has.
She is facing a possible bone marrow transplant, a procedure that Adeline underwent last year after a long wait, which was successful.
A stall will be in Bught Park at Piping Inverness on Saturday with volunteers from DKMS, a non-profit bone marrow donor centre from Germany.
Luckily, it only takes a few simple steps to get tested to see if you are a match. The process involves filling out a form and swabbing the inside of your mouth three times. The swap will be sent away to be tested and added to the bone marrow donor list.
The family need a 10 out of 10 match.
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Mum Steph said that it would mean the world to them if they could find a match.
“The point we’re at now is that if we don’t find a 10/10 match, we have to wait for her condition to get worse,” she explained. “If it does get worse and turn into leukaemia, it drops the success rate of a transplant to 40 per cent.
“It means everything to us and we want this to go smoothly. We want her to be healthy.
“Luckily she is stable at the moment. Her bone marrow is abnormal but her blood remains stable, she isn’t transfusion dependent right now.
“Other than that she is just a wild child and quite happy. Her other symptoms are a priority as she is failing to gain weight and grow.”
Steph continued: “If we don’t find one for Josie, we could potentially find other matches for other people.”
