9-year-old Sthuti Chavhan dreads anything that has to do with hospitals. Because, once a week, her nose bleeds profusely. As soon as this happens, she has to be rushed to the hospital for a blood transfusion. Sthuti has aplastic anaemia, a condition in which the body stops producing new blood cells. Even the sight of the hospital entrance reduces her to tears. But her condition is so severe that if she misses even one transfusion, it can be fatal.Just two months ago that Sthuti was diagnosed with this rare diseaseOne day, while returning from school, Sthuti noticed that her nose was bleeding. She wiped it away with her handkerchief and even tried washing it off, but the bleeding wouldn’t stop. She went running to her parents who made her lie down. In a few hours, she got a fever too. “She was very scared. She hadn’t seen such a lot of blood in her life before. She thought she was going to die. Tests showed her platelet levels were very low and that her haemoglobin count was o
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