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Phoenix teen in search of a donor match
By Tanya Waterworth
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Durban - Kyra Ramdin from Phoenix is 11 years old. She loves her dog Zeus more than anything, as well as horse riding, ice skating and reading. She also urgently needs to find a donor match for a blood cell stem transplant after being diagnosed with leukaemia, a blood cancer, in October.
Kyra s mother Michelle said the journey leading up to the diagnosis and the last five months, in which Kyra has been undergoing chemotherapy, had been difficult but the family was optimistic they could find a match.
“At the start of lockdown Kyra was fine, but around August, she became very moody and withdrawn and I put it down to being a pre-teen or perhaps the impact of Covid,” said Michelle on Thursday.