Little girl is a 'fighter' as she recovers from chemo drug poisoning This girl, 4, was allegedly poisoned by her mother with chemotherapy drugs bought over the internet. She sits by a window sill, her hand touching the glass as she gazes at the world beyond the hospital bed. The little girl in the photograph wears a knitted beanie, but her face cannot be seen. She has spent much of the past year in the hospital's oncology ward while her condition has baffled her doctors. She lost her golden locks, suffered internal bleeding and severe bruising. She endured countless needles, biopsies and bone marrow "aspirations." All the while, police allege, the four-year-old girl was being poisoned by her mother with chemotherapy drugs bought over the internet. The child remains in hospital, while her 22-year-old mother sits behind bars charged with grievous bodily harm. Neither can be named for legal reasons. In the first full update on her condition, the little girl's grandmother said she was recovering "faster than anyone thought." "She is up giggling, playing, walking and being very cheeky to her favourite doctors and nurses," the grandmother wrote on Facebook on Thursday. She got to go outside the other day to smell the fresh air and feel the sun. The grandmother thanked strangers, including ones from the UK and the US, for sending messages of support to the little girl via Facebook. "She still has a long road to travel for complete healing, but she sure is heading in the right direction," her grandmother wrote. Doctors became suspicious after the Gold Coast woman returned to the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane with her daughter in November. The woman chronicled her daughter's illness on Facebook and YouTube, pleading for a bone marrow donor and donations. Photographs show the little girl in happier times with long, blonde hair. An online fundraising page, created by the mother in December last year, garnered $395 in donations. Her grandmother said the smiling little girl was a "fighter." "And I so look forward to watching her bloom into a young lady," she said.