A seven-year-old is to have one of her legs amputated having fought a rare condition for her whole life. Bunty Stalham has been in and out of hospital with neurofibromotosis type 2 since she was diagnosed at just six-months-old.
The condition means non-malignant tumours grow on nerve tissue inside the body, which has left the fibula bone in her left leg completely eaten away and the tibia crippled by pseudo arthiritis.
Bunty has undergone three operations a year to try and save her shin bone, but doctors now say they have exhausted all options.
They have taken the tough decision to remove her leg completely. Dad Dean is furious at the fact this was never mentioned as an option previously after holding on to hope for so long.
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