Smiling Sophie happy to be home

Aug 27 2008 by Hazel Ettienne, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

BRAVE Newsome youngster Sophie Edwards is enjoying time at home with her family after a gruelling 10 weeks in hospital.

And she’s still smiling, as she and her family await a potential life-saving operation.

The seven-year-old leukaemia sufferer was allowed home after undergoing intensive chemotherapy treatment.

She now has to wait until doctors at St James’ Hospital in Leeds give her family the call to tell them she can be admitted for a bone marrow transplant which will be later this year.

Doctors believe they have found a match which will give the Stile Common Junior School pupil a fighting chance.

In the meantime she is spending time with her mum Emma, dad Andrew and brother Sam, who will be 13 on Sunday.