'My son's battle with rare cancer'

Catherine Baker, who donated part of her liver to her son George to help treat his rare cancer, speaks about his chemotherapy.

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00:00 we first went into the Marsden, you're surrounded by children who have lost their hair, who have

00:04 NG, you know, feeding tubes, and again you feel like you're, it's an almost nasal body experience

00:10 that you are amongst these extremely ill children. And then as the weeks went on,

00:14 your perspective changes slightly and you, something, there's a shift in the brain,

00:21 I don't know how else to describe it, where you no longer see these, George, even when he lost

00:27 all his hair and was really poorly, you still see your child, you don't see sickness. So you,

00:37 I don't want to say you get used to it because it's not, you don't get used to it, but the

00:41 reality was in those early months, weeks, there was no alternative for him. This is what we had

00:47 to do and this is what was hopefully going to get him better.