Alberta mother battling leukemia desperately searching for stem cell match

Watch above: Tammy McLash is a young mom of twin toddlers, but she has barely seen them in over 50 days because shes fighting for her life in hospital. But, as Su-Ling Goh reports, theres a way you could help.

EDMONTON Imagine being a mother of twin toddlers. Now imagine being separated from your children because you have to stay in the hospital while you fight leukemia.

For the past 51 days, 38-year-old Tammy McLash has only been able to see her two-year-old twins for half an hour a day.

She lives for 3:30, 4 oclock every day, said her husband Mathew. This is her time.

Tammy is generally very healthy, so when she had a sore throat for several weeks in June, and then a rash on her legs, she visited several walk-in medical clinics. She was told it was likely a virus of some kind.

But then, whena large bruise refused to heal after a family reunion in August, she found a new family doctor and went for a full physical.

After getting test results back, her doctor told her to go to an emergency department. Her platelet count was very low.

She called me crying, recalled Mathew, so obviously, when shes crying, Im crying. And she said it was cancer.

Tammy was immediately admitted to the University of Alberta hospital and started her first round of chemotherapy. When that session didnt work, doctors immediately put her on a secondround of chemo.

Shes been in here for 51 days since and home for 16 hours since.

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Alberta mother battling leukemia desperately searching for stem cell match