Scots cancer girl who lost hands and feet in sepsis battle leaves parents in tears after dancing again
A brave Scots schoolgirl who lost her hands and feet to a deadly sepsis battle has defied the odds to fulfil her dancing dream - after also winning a fight against leukaemia. Little Olivia McCord, from Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, left her parents in tears as she took to the stage with a pair of ballet shoes on her prosthetic legs last month.
She'd had sniffles and odd bruising for the previous 18 months but doctors said she would have had picked them up while playing with her friends. But then she fell ill after a routine immunisation and was taken to Queen Elizabeth University hospital in Glasgow. Sammie said: "It was a huge shock. Cancer had never even crossed our minds, and then to have sepsis on top of that too was awful."
Olivia had surgery in which doctors had to amputate both of her legs below the knee, her left hand, and also some of the fingers on her right hand. When she managed to overcome the sepsis infection doctors then had to start fighting the leukaemia and she has undergone two and a half years of chemotherapy treatment.
Sammie added: "She took to it straight away. She had spent months in a hospital room unable to see anyone because of Covid, so it was great to see her taking part with the rest of the dancers." "She may have two prosthetic legs, but she certainly doesn't let it hold her back. She's come on in leaps and bounds over the last 12 months. It's been a long hard battle, but now she's really come out the other side.'