Powys man with leukaemia saved by bone marrow from sister

After constantly feeling under the weather, Jody White assumed blood tests would simply confirm he had glandular fever – not two weeks to live. At the age of 17, he was diagnosed with acute undifferentiated leukaemia (AUL) and immediately started chemotherapy and radiotherapy. "Everything just fell apart in my head and life as I knew it dissolved. It was a complete shock," recalled the digital designer from Presteigne, Powys. After months of treatment and battling pneumonia, Jody's parents were told his best chance for survival was a bone marrow transplant. After testing Jody's three siblings, his 11-year-old sister Jessie was found to be a perfect match. Looking back, Jessie, now 37, said she and Jody were "always very close". In the summer of 1999 Jody, now 44, was preparing to start his A-levels when he started experiencing "repeated infections". "I'd have an ear infection and doctors gave me some antibiotics, then I'd come back with something else in a different part of my body. "Concurrently, I was getting these large rashes, which would appear for a few days and then go down again and then appear in other parts of the body." Jody had "muffly" hearing in one ear so doctors, su