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Milanna-May Eshelby with parents Reanna and Malaky on holiday

A young Nottingham child is battling a rare disease against the odds that claimed the life of another two-year-old in the city . Milanna-May Eshelby was born in May 2022 and was eventually diagnosed with the rare but untreatable mitochondrial disease .

She died in February and her parents, Reanna Cotterill and Malaky Eshelby, had been in contact with another Nottingham couple , Elaine and Leigh Fox, who are enduring the same trauma with their three-year-old daughter . Katie Fox's symptoms are getting worse to the point that she can no longer eat normally.

Reanna said: “Following multiple miscarriages, Milanna couldn’t have been a more wanted or cherished daughter when she arrived in the world on May 14, 202

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