‘I Thank God We Were Able To Save Her!'

She lost a kidney, but brave Chloe never lost her smile

- Katherine Davison

With love in the air on the eve of Valentines’ Day two years ago, mum Sally Filtness could not have been happier as she watched over the beautiful identical twin girls she and husband Tim conceived with the help of IVF.

But her joy quickly turned to terror the following day when her longed-for daughter Chloe – an identical twin to sister Zara – was diagnosed with cancer when she was rushed to emergency after Tim found blood in her nappy.

“They said, ‘It’s nephroblastoma, it’s cancerous and it’s taken over the whole of her left kidney,’” Sydney-based teacher Sally, 45, tells