A VISIT THAT CHANGE A LIFE.
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A young Michael Jackson visited the bedside of a 6-year old Leslie Robinette, who suffered from aplastic anaemia caused by the genetic disease Fanconi anaemia.
Michael visited her at the Seattle Children's Hospital (known then as The Children's Orthopaedic Hospital and Medical Centre.)
Leslie had received a bone marrow transplant and was one of the youngest to ever have the procedure. She went through chemotherapy, radiation, an ever-changing plethora of medications and was kept in isolation for three months.
Her state of health was precarious, the doctors saying, after she was dismissed from the hospital, that she might live 10 years.
"I was sitting in my room looking out the window, ironically listening "Looking through the window" by the Jackson 5, when I heard all the nurses going wild and carrying on", Leslie said 26 years later.
The Jackson 5 were there. "They asked me which one I wanted to see, and I said I wanted to see Michael, " she says, laughing. She described Michael as shy, but kind and sincere, signing an autograph for her, holding her hand and asking about her condition. "I would never say that he saved her life - that's crazy - but he gave her back a little of her will to live because she had lost it," Trine Robinette, Leslie's sister added. Leslie's health eventually improved, and her family returned to their farm in Greenville, Tennessee, where she lived with her parents. 11 years later, Leslie met Michael again, while he was on tour in Knoxville with his brothers. Leslie received free tickets, then went backstage to meet the Jackson brothers. "I asked him if he remembered me, and he said yes. We talked about the progress with my condition and how I was getting my back brace off soon", Robinette said. Michael then told his security that she was his guest, so she got to watch the show from a raised VIP platform, seated next to Michael's mother, Katherine. Still struggling with her disease, she was less than 4 feet tall and weighted about 60 pounds. She is now in her 40's and involved with the North American Riding for the Handicapped association.
"I've always felt that Michael and I were kind of kindred spirits, because we both grew up not being able to really go anywhere or anything normal kids do", Robinette says, adding that she hopes people will remember Michael Jackson for his good deeds and music.
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