5/28/2023 0 Comments Darius & Twig by Walter Dean Myers![]() ![]() ![]() By that point it had spread to his bone marrow and was terminal.Ĭhemotherapy shrunk the tumour to the size of a walnut but by July 2004, his body was so ravaged that his heart stopped beating - only to restart again. It was only when he collapsed one day at home that a scan revealed a tumour the size of a large orange in his pelvis. And in 2015, his Scottish GP mother, Avril Campbell Danesh, was diagnosed with breast cancer.īut both went on to make miraculous recoveries, with chemotherapy and radiotherapy curing Dr Booth of stage 4 lymphoma that had spread to his bone marrow.īefore his diagnosis, he had been feeling run-down for 18 months but symptoms were dismissed as arthritis. ![]()
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