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28 February 2020
Wolves legend Steve Bull joins Zac for bell ring Picture courtesy of the Shropshire Star.
Zac Oliver marked the end of an emotional journey by ringing the end of treatment cancer bell at PRH this week.
about the journey you have been through. The bell represents an important moment and it is important to us as parents to be able to celebrate a really joyful time.”
The five-year-old, who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia in May 2018, was joined by family, friends and Hannah thanked the staff at PRH and the Wolves legend Steve Bull has he rang the people of Shropshire for their support. bell inside the Children’s Oncology Unit. She said: “We are so thankful for His recovery has been a tale of inspiration everything and everyone that has got us after the people of Shropshire helped to this place.” raise £500,000 to pay for specialist Car-T Former professional footballer Steve Bull therapy at the Children’s Hospital of added: “I have done a lot of things in my Philadelphia in America. career, I’ve had an MBE, I went to a Zac’s mother, Hannah Oliver-Willetts, World Cup, won medals, but things like said: “It is very emotional, you just think this top it off.
“Zac will be an inspiration to other kids out there that if they have something like that then they can beat it too.” Janice Llewellyn, Paediatric Haematology Nurse Specialist at SaTH, who was Zac’s key worker from his diagnosis in 2018, said it was wonderful to mark the end of his treatment, for the staff at the unit as well as the family. She said: “It is really good to see the children come to the end of their treatment and be happy and healthy and ring the bell and move on with their lives. “We will still follow them up in the clinic but it is very different.”