Marleigh Fisher looks like any other happy six-year-old girl.
She loves going to school, playing with her friends and attending ballet classes.
But there is much more to this brave little girl than meets the eye.
Diagnosed with a chronic autoimmune disorder when she was just three, Marleigh is being kept alive thanks to the generosity of complete strangers, who roll up their sleeves regularly to donate their plasma.
Her mum Kate said without regular infusions, Marleigh simply would not be here.
“Marleigh was a normal happy, healthy kid until she was about three and started having what we now know are absent seizures,” she said.
“They got progressively worse and we started to get very concerned when her development started regressing, including her speech and gross motor skills. She went from a typical busy three-year-old to not being able to walk, talk or even hold a spoon to her mouth.”
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