YOUNG Amelie Coelho Flatt has beat cancer for a fourth time — by spending months in a bubble.
The 12-year-old was diagnosed with leukaemia at three and it kept returning despite numerous types of treatment.
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But Amelie, 12, of Stotfold, Beds, was saved by a stem cell transplant thanks to a donor in Germany who was the only match on global bone marrow registers.
After 128 days in an isolation bubble following the op, she is finally free from the disease.
Mum Sofia said: “We can’t thank that stranger enough, as he was Amelie’s only chance of survival.
“It was tough for her being in isolation in the bubble – all she wanted to do was go home to be with her younger brother.
“She is celebrating now, and just enjoying doing the simple things in like seeing friends and going swimming – all the things that she hasn’t been able to do in isolation.’
Amelie was diagnosed in July 2015 after vomiting before she was due to attend a birthday party.
She added: “I didn’t think anything of it at first – I just thought she had a sickness bug and so did the GP, who gave her lucozade to drink.
“But after a few days I still wasn’t happy, she was very lethargic, and so I took her to A and E.
“They thought it was a urine infection and gave her antibiotics, but she wasn’t in pain, so I wasn’t convinced with that diagnosis.
“The following day she was lying on the sofa and she was sick again, and I knew that she didn’t look right.”