Making memories
At first, she complained of a few aches and pains and a feeling of tiredness. Her parents were concerned, but not overly so, as she seemed to recover fairly quickly. About a month later, she was covered in bruises and, fearing the worst, her mother Carmel took her to see her family doctor. Within hours, she was rushed to Crumlin Hospital in Dublin as blood tests revealed she had leukaemia.
After years of intensive treatment, Orna has fully recovered, but Carmel also believes the two visits of the family — Carmel, her husband Paul and children Grainne, Aran, Orna and Ross — to Barretstown went a long way to making her little girl well again.
