mellonie's Leukaemia CARE Marathon

Hi, this is my sister Mallissa Ann Brown. When she was healthy. Mallissa was strong minded and did what she thought was right. She would give you the shirt off her back if you asked for it. 
In january 2015at the age of 39 she was to have her first child. 
She was ecstatic.
In february the same year she had first blood test for the pregnancy. They found M.D.S a reletively new cancer that attacks the bone marrow. There is no cure. She was advised to terminate her baby to go forward with aggressive chemotherapy treatment.
She refused.
They said that she would probably mis-carry at 14 weeks. She didn't. Then it was 18 weeks- she didn't.
During this time she developed A.M.L. 
A blood cancer. She was admitted to hospital and spent weeks having treatment and care. At 32 weeks the medical team and her deterioration was such that they decided to bring the baby.

She came through the section relatively well and her baby was healthy much to the medical teams surprise.
At this point she was given weeks maybe a month to live. She came home with her baby and continued to have treatment as an out patient. She improved and it was decided to give her a stem cell transplant this she had on 20/11/2015. From this her fight got harder.
She was weak and the care of her baby boy was given over to me whilst hospital visit and admittances became more frequent.
In December 2015 she enjoyed the one and only christmas she would spend with her son. The following months were devastating.She lost almost half her body weight and it became clear by april 2016 that she was loosing her fight.
By June everyone wondered how much longer she could go on having treatment and the deterioration from here on in got much worse. She refused to stay in hospital and wanted to spend as much time with her son as she could.
She made plans for his future, made a will and bequeathed all to him. She put her affairs in order and made me his guardian.
In the last month she refused to give in and continued going back and forth to the hospital for treatment.
On July 25th 2016 at 9.50am she was admitted to hospital gravely ill for the last time. At 11.00am she slipped away.
Three days before her sons first birthday.....
Her most profound statements-
'No I will never give up my baby'
When asked if things went bad at the birth who should they try and save... her words....
' save the one with the best chance of life and at the moment that is my baby, save him first and if possible then me.'
'Mum I'm tired, I want to go to sleep'
Which she did and never woke up.

My name is Mellonie, Mallissa's younger sister. It is my honour to take care of mallissa's miracle. I would not have it any other way.
I would never have believed in a million years that Cancer would come knocking at my families door.  
But it did.
Cancer of all kinds effects 1 in 3 or 2 people forgive me but I'm not sure if that has changed.
Could you choose between your brothers or sisters, sons or daughters, friends or family of whom would come down with this killer? I know I can't. I don't want to, My hope is that one day no one will have to even think of Cancer as the big C.
I am running the london marathon in 2018 for Leukeamia care charity and hope to raise £2150 or more if possible to help provide the essential care for those effected by the soul destroying illness I have witnessed with my own eyes.
I still haven't accepted that mallissa has gone and I don't think I ever will. But to have the chance to help raise some funds that might be providing for you, me or someone you don't even know is my way of showing mallissa I was with her all the way, we all were.

Thank you for taking the time to read my story and please, please help me raise the funds to help others.