A brave schoolgirl has stunned her family and friends by making videos of herself singing and dancing in her hospital room while undergoing experimental treatment to save her life.
Cancer patient Mackenzie Furniss is the first person to undergo the new form of stem cell therapy in Scotland.
The treatment started two weeks ago and recent pictures of the nine-year-old in Yorkhill Hospital, Glasgow, showed her lying in bed and clearly suffering.
However, a few days later the girl from Sauchie, Clackmannanshire, was making videos of herself jumping around the ward.
In one of the videos, she pays tribute to American singer Pink who donated $10,000 to Mackenzie’s treatment earlier this year by miming to her hit So What..embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }
The song was dubbed “Mackenzie’s Chemo Dance” by her dad Jason, who uploaded the videos to YouTube.
In another video Mackenzie sings along to You’re My Inspiration by Chicago. She smiles at the camera while swaying along to the music, before bursting into a fit of giggles.
In her final one, she sings along to the Glee cover version of the Bruno Mars song Marry You. Again the youngster jumps around the room while singing along.
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Mackenzie is in the early stages of receiving a haploidentical stem cell transplant, which has been described as a last-chance bid to save her life.
The experimental treatment, devised by German doctor Peter Lang, is costing £300,000 but with the help of friends, generous supporters and the Scottish Government, Mackenzie is finally undergoing the initial stages of the treatment, which involved a stem cell donation from her father.
You can follow her progress at www.facebook.com/mackenziesmiracle