Kayla's Story

On 22 May 2017 our world stopped turning. Our beautiful little girl had cancer. Those words will haunt us forever.

We watched her go from a happy, energetic, innocent hurricane to a sad, frail, very poorly baby bird.

At her lowest point she was rushed to surgery with a perforated bowel. Hearing her first word after surgery, a word we thought we may never hear, was the most beautiful sound in the world. She adjusted quickly to her new situation and worked hard to learn to walk all over again.

Since then she's had to fight her socks off again and again. Her treatment lasted for two years and it was brutal. She endured hundreds of doses of chemotherapy and spent hundreds of nights in hospital away from her daddy and brothers.

Thankfully Kayla has finished treatment and is doing well, although her journey is far from over. We now feel it's time to give back and hopefully improve treatments for future children.