Faith Hinitt, 28, had to raise more than £100,000 after a second transplant was turned down.
Hinitt was diagnosed with AML after her dentist recommended she went to hospital when she did not respond as expected to antibiotics. She spent 14 days on ventilation after contracting pneumonia.
After chemotherapy did not work, her brother was identified as a match for stem cell treatment, and he became her first donor in September 2024.
When her cancer returned months later, she was treated again with chemotherapy, but after further relapses she was told she was not eligible for another transplant on the NHS, which she said left her in desperation.
"I just sobbed and said, 'I'm going to have to sell my house'," she said. "I just remember going into sheer panic, of [thinking], 'what are we going to do?'
"We're a very basic, normal family, we save up for our holidays - people do have a spare hundreds of thousands, but we certainly don't.
"I never once in my life, through all this cancer journey, thought that it'd be down to a financial decision on my life, that I couldn't have the life-saving treatment that I need."
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