Last November, Nelson mum Sarah Kerby was frantically packing a bag to fly to Starship children’s Hospital in Auckland, preparing to say goodbye to her precious preschooler William.
Sarah pulled her 10-year-old son Baillie out of school to head to his brother’s bedside, where William lay in a coma, his little body double its size from fluid. Following stem cell treatment and high-dose chemotherapy to treat aggressive cancer, the then-four-year-old had developed neutropenic sepsis, which Sarah was told would probably kill him.
