Scans and blood tests could be a scary experience for six-year-old Bonnie Hill but thanks to a special team visiting Perth Children’s Hospital she came away with a new furry friend.

Build-A-Bear volunteers visited the Starlight Express room at PCH on Tuesday to give sick kids a chance to enjoy a heart ceremony — a workshop where the children bring their new teddy to life by putting a heart inside it.

For Bonnie getting to make her teddy meant she left the hospital with happy memories rather than thinking about her appointments.

Her life has been filled with appointments at the hospital since she was diagnosed with a neuroblastoma ganglioneuroma — a large benign tumour in her stomach — when she was four.

Her appointments include visiting the oncology ward for blood tests and scans to ch

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