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Pia de Jong with newborn Charlotte. When Charlotte was born with a rare form of leukaemia, Pia decided against treatment

His voice sounds lat, rehearsed. He wants to do this properly. He knows I will remember this conversation for the rest of my life. ‘We have to discuss the treatment plan,’ he continues, ‘choose what is best for Charlotte. The only thing we can offer for leukaemia is chemotherapy. Unfortunately it is very dangerous for children. For newborns it is so dangerous that it can cause them to die. And if they survive, the side effects can be severe. They can become blind, infertile...’

The rest of his words I don’t hear because Charlotte is slurping loudly from my

breast. The oncologist looks at her. ‘To be honest, we don’t know what is best for Why my kids, 15 and Charlotte. So little is known about this disease. Only a few articles exist to gather 19, still need a nanny, by Fiona Bruce: information from.’ Newsreader reveals she uses carer because she's at work so much ‘Can I see those articles?’ my husband Robbert asks. ‘I am a physicist – I know how to Dividing opinion read scientiic papers.’ Can you teal the love? Jennifer Lopez stuns in The doctor gets the articles out of the binder and puts them in front of us. My eyes revealing gown while wander to the irst sentence. ‘In general, congenital myeloid leukaemia is deadly,’ I beau Alex Rodriguez rocks a tuxedo at read. friend's wedding What a gem The room starts to move and slowly I leave my chair and become a bird, loating From hero to above it. I see Robbert leaning over the articles. Far below I see myself, the mother cuckold... Ross was who just gave birth, with her limp, pale child in her arms. betrayed by Demelza. He then sided with his enemy against the 19 starving, revolting, The doctor coughs, trying to get my attention. He wants to know what I think. NEW peasants in Poldark's ARTICLES Top humiliating finale ‘About what?’ . Share 'You had to get her at ‘The treatment,’ he says. the right angle because http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-4736266/A-mother-explains-refused-treatment-ill-baby.html 2/30 07/08/2017 Pia de Jong on why she refused treatment for ill baby | Daily Mail Online I put on my sweater and put Charlotte snugly in her sling. she had a bit of a big nose': Former royal press secretary reveals ‘What are you doing?’ the doctor asks. Diana created THAT signature look

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'I don't know what love Pia with Charlotte as a toddler. Pia writes: 'Parents always want to do everything for their child, is anymore': Internet the doctor had said. Not us, I had replied. We do nothing' loses it over news Hollywood golden couple Chris Pratt and ‘I’m leaving.’ Anna Faris are separating ‘You can’t leave just like that, we are here together to discuss the treatment plan.’ Fabulous at 52! Ageless Famke Janssen I search for Robbert’s eyes. He will understand. puts on an incredibly leggy display in a thigh­ grazing miniskirt as she ‘We’re not going to treat her. We’re going home, all three of us.’ steps out in New York

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Robbert leaves to pick up our two boys. I lie on the bed with Charlotte and inhale the Advertisement aromas of stale sweat, baby shampoo and disinfectant that we carried back from the hospital on our clothes. She searches for her favourite place in the crook of my arm. Together we stare at the ceiling until her eyes fall shut.

My love for her overwhelms me. It is so big it frightens me. ‘Charlotte,’ I whisper, Charlotte makes people ‘stay with me.’ “hold their breath. She reminds us that those we I kiss her as gently as I can, again and love can leave us just like again. My tears drip on to her hair, ine that as cobwebs. From her half-open mouth I can smell her breath. I savour her ” aromas, trying to ind words for them – sweet, round, warm. I want to remember that on this very day she smelled sweet, round, warm. I want to bottle it, to keep it with me. For later.

Sleeping is a waste of my time, of Charlotte’s time. I want my heart to become like a freshly ploughed ield where I sow every one of her life’s moments. I will harvest the experiences later. I want to prepare myself for a life illed with memories of her.

Parents always want to do everything for their child, the doctor had said. Not us, I had replied. We do nothing. Why was I so determined just to take her home? Was it 19 NEW the graph showing the statistics, which so clearly demonstrated that children have ARTICLES Top little chance against this disease? Was it hearing about the side effects of chemotherapy? What all that poison would do to her delicate body? Was it my own Share fear of facing this ordeal? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-4736266/A-mother-explains-refused-treatment-ill-baby.html 3/30 07/08/2017 Pia de Jong on why she refused treatment for ill baby | Daily Mail Online The next morning when I am taking Charlotte for a walk, the sky darkens. I duck into Making the most of those warm summer the irst shop to ind shelter and notice I’ve landed in a bookshop. As long as I’m here nights! A leggy I might as well start searching for books about grief. Alessandra Ambrosio steps out for dinner in Malibu dressed in a pale A man with a friendly face walks over to me and asks if he can help. ‘I’m looking for a blue playsuit book about grief. For my young sons. In case the worst happens.’ He glances at my SPOILER ALERT! How hand, shielding Charlotte’s head. He seems to understand. ‘Come with me,’ he says. she trained her dragon! Daenerys Targaryen brings fire and blood as We go to the children’s department where we step over a stuffed toy giraffe. ‘Read she takes on Lannisters this to your sons. It’s a picture book about a rabbit, a duck and a badger who ind in Game Of Thrones The war is coming their friend, a blackbird, dead in the woods. They realise he’ll never ly again, but they each share their dearest memories of him. Children always love stories about I get a kick out of you! Perrie Edwards can't animals.’ I start to thank him but he brushes it off. ‘That’s what I am here for.’ contain her excitement as she cheers on beau Alex Oxlade­ When I get home, the boys, their hair stiffened by sand and dried rain, huddle Chamberlain at Arsenal against me. I love them so much the way they are now. Two carefree boys tumbling match over each other. I cannot bring myself to disturb their happiness. I put the book 'I love my away. There is still time. imperfections!': Stacey Solomon uploads hilarious bikini­clad * * * * * video championing her 'saggy boobies' and In my half sleep I hear Robbert scurrying through the house. I listen to the familiar 'stretch marks'

sounds while Charlotte nestles in my arm. Late in the evening he is always searching 'There are barriers I for things to inspire him. He browses through books and magazines. hope to break': Heavily pregnant Serena Williams displays her ‘I’m awake,’ I say as he comes into the bedroom. I know he wants to tell me bump in scantily­clad shoot... and discusses something. her child's future

‘I found something important tonight,’ he whispers. ‘A blog about a child somewhere Beaming Megan in America born with the same disease as Charlotte. And here is the most incredible McKenna embraces a pyjama chic look as she thing. He is still alive, at eight years old.’ reunites with leggy best friend Amber Turner for TOWIE night out in I let Charlotte slip out of my arms and sit up. My heart is thumping and suddenly I am Marbella excited about an eight-year-old boy far away on another continent. I want to meet him, look into his eyes. My thoughts scatter in all directions. I try to focus on the SPONSORED implications of what Robbert is telling me. Love the age you are with Clarins Super Restorative ‘So he wasn’t treated, and he survived?’

‘Exactly,’ says Robbert. ‘He went into spontaneous remission.’

I feel like crying and screaming at the same time. I am so energised I could go outside in my pyjamas and run a marathon in my bare feet.

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My visits to the hospital are starting to blur. The oncologist examines Charlotte in his 0:00 / 0:00 predetermined routine. I watch him as he studies her skin as if he is trying to decipher a mysterious hieroglyphic. Beauty journalist and YouTube expert Nadine Baggott discusses what mature skin needs (and how to give it the nourishment it deserves).

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Pia with Charlotte in 2015. For the irst year of Charlotte's life Pia was prepared for the worst

‘I must tell you something important,’ I stumble over my words. ‘About a boy in America. His name is Sammy.’

The doctor glances up then bends over Charlotte. ‘He has the same illness but he survived. At least he survived until he was eight…there is a blog but we can’t ind it again, it’s lost in cyberspace. We need to ind out more about him.’

The doctor smiles while examining Charlotte’s delicate feet. A boy lost on the internet does not command his attention. He has eyes only for Charlotte. ‘She does it Pregnant Danielle Lloyd shows off her her way,’ he says when I dress her. baby bump as she cuddles up to baby niece... after confessing It unsettles us that there is still no change in her health. She is such a fragile baby, her fourth pregnancy tired and listless. Sometimes she seems worse, when the blue tumours on her body has been stressful

multiply and I ind them in new places. How long is this going to take? The 'They're f***ing fake!': uncertainty frightens me. I am scared that death will be too rough for my butterly CBB's Trisha Paytas slams her housemates girl. I am afraid to see her slip away. To be left with her still body, which will no longer in epic tantrum about cling to mine. But mostly I’m afraid of what comes after that, my empty arms. her hunger... before choosing PIZZA over immunity from eviction Before Charlotte I was careless with my time. Now my world has shrivelled to a cocoon in which I hide with her. Time has shrunk. I think in minutes, live in details. I Ant McPartlin's wife Lisa arrives at Heathrow count the beads of sweat on the forehead of my child. I know by heart the number of airport ahead of jetting overseas... as he T-cells in her blood. prepares to 'leave rehab in the next month' Charlotte makes people hold their breath. She confronts them with impermanence. She reminds us that the people we love can leave us just like that. It is a pain we like Val Kilmer prompts to avoid. A child is supposed to hold the promise of a future, making up for the fact new concerns for his health as he pulls out of that we do not live for ever. events at the last minute with vague excuses months after One morning in the hospital, at the end of Charlotte’s checkup, the oncologist puts finally admitting he has his hand on my arm and says, ‘I would like to take a new biopsy, from her foot.’ I’m cancer . not surprised he wants to know more about the stubborn large nodules on her feet. ‘We want to understand what’s going on with the DNA. Maybe this new insight can Working the decks! Rumer Willis DJs in help her.’ Chicago during the 2017 Lollapalooza Music Festival As we peel away Charlotte’s clothes, he listens to her heart, takes her blood pressure She was mixing the tunes and examines her skin. Then he picks up a cotton ball and disinfects her skin. I hold at the festival

her close as he takes her foot in his latex glove. Then he drops his hand. ‘I’d rather Former TOWIE stars not do this…what if I damage something, a tendon, a nerve? I would not forgive Lauren Pope and Mario Falcone look set to myself if she could not walk because of this.’ RETURN to the ITVBe series... as they are spotted jetting out to 19 Slowly I turn to him. For the irst time we do not look away but stare into each other’s Marbella with castmates eyes. The man who holds the key to the health of the sweetest and most delicate NEW ARTICLES Top person in my life, who can read and explain her blood, now tells us what we dared 'Hot felon' Jeremy Meeks relaxes with a not imagine: the possibility that Charlotte might one day walk. cigarette in the sunshine... as he and Share Chloe Green continue to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-4736266/A-mother-explains-refused-treatment-ill-baby.html 5/30 07/08/2017 Pia de Jong on why she refused treatment for ill baby | Daily Mail Online * * * * * flaunt their controversial romance in Barbados ‘The spot on her back has disappeared,’ says Robbert. We are about to bathe her. Curious, I trace the tips of my ingers along her back. The blue place that the midwife noticed when she was born has vanished.

‘This is really signiicant,’ Robbert says. ‘It was the irst and the largest. I do not understand how she did it, but she has overcome this on her own.’ 'Stop giving men trophies for doing the ‘Her skin is cleaner every time,’ says the oncologist. His remarks make me weak with bare minimum': Tess joy. Healing is still too large a word to grasp, but the future becomes less bleak. Holliday hits out at man who went viral with post about his 'curvy wife' Robbert and I wonder if it might be possible that she will get better soon. And she Like father, like son! does. She looks less pale, is not exhausted all the time. Gone is the girl who seems to Former Best Ink host be on the verge of disappearing into her own faraway world. Carefully we make Pete Wentz watches as son Saint, 2, gets plans for the summer. Recklessly we measure her, look at her growth curve and temporary tattoo Got a taste for the inked predict her height and weight. What will she become, later when she is all grown up? life with his dad We still live in a dense fog but occasionally a light shimmers through. No Love (Island) lost Charlotte is better every day, livelier. ‘Her skin is clean,’ the oncologist says after her here! Chyna Ellis brands ex Jonny checkup. He sounds surprised as well as relieved. Charlotte lies on the exam table, Mitchell a 'disgusting' snake in very public her feet paddling in the air. I have been making a game of it by trying to catch her Twitter spat after his toes. ‘The tumours are gone. What we hardly dared hope for has happened. She is in explosive claims she cheated remission.’ Hailey Baldwin hides her model figure under slouchy sweater and baggy jeans for religious conference Laid back look for off duty model

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+4 19 NEW ARTICLES Top Pia and Charlotte today. She is now 17 years old. Photograph: Annaleen Louwes Share Like me, he seems to ind it hard to believe. ‘For good?’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-4736266/A-mother-explains-refused-treatment-ill-baby.html 6/30 07/08/2017 Pia de Jong on why she refused treatment for ill baby | Daily Mail Online ‘In my profession this is as close as I can give you to certainty. With adults, if after ive years the leukaemia has not returned, we consider them cured. It’s harder to say with babies.’ TH He has never used words like remission or certainty. Five years seems like an OUR 25 ANNIVERSARY unimaginably long time. I do not know if I should be happy, or rather how much WILL DAZZLE YOU happiness I should allow myself to feel. It seems too good to be true. I start to shake so strongly that I hold on to a chair. The doctor puts his arm around me. Tears roll down his cheeks. ‘There were times when I thought she could not handle it, that the disease would take a wrong turn. I’m so proud of her, she really did it her way.’ Megan McKenna is

radiant in vibrant green ©DISNEY *Terms and conditions apply I put Charlotte beside me in the car seat and drive away. Everything is different. I shirt and geek­chic glasses as she returns cannot believe that she has healed, that all is well and that one day she will walk on to TOWIE filming in those delicate feet of hers. I know that I will spend the next few years bending over Marbella... after jetting to Nashville her body in search of blue spots, but this is the moment I have been waiting for. I pull over and while I try to calm down I see the hospital in my rear-view mirror. I take Never Say Never Again! Daniel Craig Charlotte out of the car seat and hold her close to me. She smiles. 'signs up for TWO more James Bond movies'... after claiming he'd ‘Charlotte,’ I whisper. I know she 'rather slit his wrists' understands what happened. She has I cannot believe that than reprise 007 role spent a year trying to get better. I rock “ Charlotte has healed, that Love Island's Chloe her in my arms. A year ago, on a hot day all is well and that one day Crowhurst cosies up to former TOWIE star like this, I gave birth to a daughter. A girl she will walk on those Jamie Reed in a we gave the most beautiful name in the skintight pink leather delicate feet midi dress... after 'split' world. Today she is born again, this time ” from in a healthy body. 'Splash!': Christina Milian shares sizzling Charlotte’s blood is still clear. She is now 17 years old. bikini snap of herself emerging from a This is an abridged extract from Saving Charlotte – A Mother and the Power of swimming pool She knows how to make Intuition by Pia de Jong, to be published by WW Norton & Co on 21 August, price waves £12.99. To pre-order a copy for £11.04 until 20 August, visit you-bookshop.co.uk or Casey Batchelor puts call 0844 571 0640; p&p is free on orders over £15 on a VERY busty display as she flaunts her envy­inducing figure in a black cut­out swimsuit Intense workouts x

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I agree in the sense that it's fuel for parents who don't believe in medicine and think Louise Redknapp prayer is the answer, but the writer makes it very clear that her child had a very rare form channels androgynous of leukemia to the point where the doctor admitted he didn't know what the best course of chic as she parties into action would be because chemo would have caused suffering and possibly death. If the early hours with pal stories like Charlie's are plastered all over the media then ones like this one should be Daisy Lowe... as Jamie too. A big problem nowadays is a lot of people can't think for themselves and blindly hopes to 'whisk her follow what they read in the media. It's those peoples mindsets that need to change, not away' the stories that are posted. Kylie Minogue cuts a casual figure in a beige Click to rate 8 0 duster jacket and a baseball cap as she Kaia, London, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago enjoys a low­key night out in London Chemo'therapy'? This is the ONLY treatment offered by our western medicine, that Solo night out radio'therapy'. Both toxic. She took her daughter out in the sunshine, as you can see from photos. Vitamin D deficiency is responsible for some 90% of cancers, that and sugar Lizzie Cundy, 47, consumption. leaves little to the imagination as she shows off her slender Click to rate 0 1 figure and behind in a VERY skimpy caged bikini in Mallorca DottieL, Santa Maria, United States, 16 hours ago

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You wrote in the article summary on the home page that this family is from Princeton, NJ, yet the author writes that the 8 year old boy in America was in "another continent," so where was this family living throughout all of this? Does anyone know? I'm just curious because it isn't made clear. Yazmin Oukhellou exudes confidence in a New Comment Reply Click to rate 24 1 chic LBD for TOWIE filming in Marbella... as she steps out for the rayme, manchester, United Kingdom, 17 hours ago first time since getting a nose job A truly wonderful story. It shows beyond all doubt that you should never lose hope and that the treatment can often be responsible for death of a tiny baby. I salute you madam and good luck to ABS­olutely ripped! both you and your daughter. Bethenny Frankel, 46, flashes her toned midriff in tiny bikini for New Comment Reply Click to rate 45 3 roadside selfie She has a body of a woman half her age simply irresistible, Amanda, United States, 17 hours ago

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