I'm raising money in memory of a sweet little girl called Daisy whom I knew all her short life.

Daisy's Story

On 3rd of May 2014, my friends the Brooks family received the worst ever possible news, their beautiful and much loved 6 year old daughter Daisy was diagnosed with a devastating and inoperable form of brain tumour called DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma).  DIPG primarily affects children with most succumbing to the disease within 18 months of diagnosis. Daisy went from being a normal child at school one day with no sign of illness to hospital the next and was having radiotherapy by the following week.

At the time, Daisy’s parents were told that there was no hope of a cure but that radiotherapy would buy a little extra time to make precious memories with their daughter and that if they were lucky they could expect a few weeks of ‘good health’ before the symptoms took hold and their little girl would start to slip away

Daisy’s family and friends scoured the internet looking for some treatment that could help her.  Like many parents in this desperate situation, they would have done anything, gone anywhere to help their beloved child but they found hope right here in the UK in the brilliant Professor Steven Gill.  Daisy was offered experimental brain surgery at Bristol Childrens Hospital which involved a software guided robot installing a series of catheters attached to a titanium device to deliver chemotherapy direct to the tumour.  Daisy underwent three rounds of treatment and although the initial results looked promising, the tumour proved too aggressive and sadly Daisy died on November 17, hours after celebrating her 7 birthday.

Daisy was such a sweet, brave and caring girl who never complained about anything – she was still smiling on her birthday despite not being able to move, swallow or speak such is the devastating nature of this illness that slowly robs a child of all their vital functions including finally their ability to breathe.  Her family and friends are so proud of her and now want to continue the process to help find a cure so that other children and their families don’t have to go through the same agony.

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