Warrington Worldwide // Little girl’s brave battle with leukaemia inspires Grandpa to write unique memoir

A UNIQUE memoir is charting the true life story of a remarkable little girl who was diagnosed with leukaemia when she was just 10 months old.

Sorrelle Turnbull is now 10 years old and like other children her age loves swimming and gymnastics.

Her grandpa Sam Price, 61, says she’s “intelligent and articulate, but that’s probably because she has had adults talking to her from an early age in a way that other children wouldn’t have.”
But she didn’t have the easiest start in life.
As a baby, she underwent gruelling treatment to keep her alive after being diagnosed with infant acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
The book details her journey through the eyes of her grandpa, who works for Warrington Borough Council.

Sorrelle was treated for the leukaemia by a team of medics at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.
She was diagnosed in 2015 at the age of just ten months old. When she completed her hospital treatment in 2018, she’d undergone two bone marrow transplants, had suffered kidney failure and sepsis and had part of her bowel removed.
Her grandpa says she will be “medicated for life” as a result of the impact of her illness.

Initially, Mr Price put pen to paper in a closed Facebook group for family and friends who wanted updates on Sorrelle’s treatment. “I made sure it was written in a way that informed, not alarmed,” he said.
“As the years rolled on and she came to the end of her treatment, I finished doing the posts on Facebook.”

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