Cancer survivor wants to work alongside medical staff who saved her life
A teenager diagnosed with leukaemia when she was just 14-years-old wants to become doctor and work beside medical staff who saved her life.
Taylah Miranda-Rees, 18, was first taken to hospital in 2014 after she was feeling extreme exhaustion and a blood test revealed she had elavated white blood cells.
After being diagnosed with leukaemia and spending most of her time with doctors, the teenager formed a close bond with Dr Sarah Khan at the Monash Children's Hospital.
"The day we met, she told us she wanted to become a lawyer and I told her that day will change and she will want to do medicine and she did," Dr Khan said.
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Ms Miranda-Rees said her friendship with Dr Khan was cemented when she voiced her concern she was too sick to make it to a One Direction concert.
"Two days before I was having chemo and I was throwing up and it was looking pretty bad," the teenager said.
"But she came over to me and helf my hand and she said we're going to get you there, it's going to happen."
She made it to the concert and Dr Khan said she knew how much it meant to the teenager.
"We have a really close bond and I knew she really wanted to go, so we made it happen," she said.
Ms Miranda-Rees was told she was now cancer-free in December and only returns to hospital once a month for a check up.
But the teenager hopes to one day return to the hospital permanently to work alongside the doctors.
