Did you know that brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of children and young adults in the uk? Yet they receive less than 1% of the national spend on cancer research.

I didn’t either until the day my precious little boy was diagnosed with one. Levi was just six years old when he was diagnosed with a brain tumour on his brain stem and cerebellum. He had been suffering from headaches and dizziness which doctors assured me was due to childhood migraine. How I wish they had been right.  Levi wasn’t responding to ‘migraine’ medicine and so we pushed for Levi to have a CT scan- after all how can doctor’s know what’s happening in someone’s head without looking? I wanted the scan to rule out anything serious …but it did the opposite. Levi was rushed to hospital and endured a 12 hour operation to de bulk his tumour. My brave little boy with the big brown eyes, beautiful smile and cheeky personality lost his Power Ranger fight and died in my arms just 6 weeks after diagnosis. He was surrounded by his devastated family. We had lost Levi and now we were lost, our hearts were shattered into a million pieces. How do you even breathe without the little person who means more to you than your own life?

Well we did breathe and we did continue, heart breaking though the journey has been. We decided to start a charity in Levi’s precious memory, to fight against the devastation brain tumours cause. Levi’s Star supports children with brain tumours and their families at a time when their world has been turned upside down. Our three objectives are to:

• Offers grants to children with brain tumours in the Yorkshire area

• Raise awareness about this devastating disease

• Promote research into centres for cures of brain tumours

Please visit our website to find out more www.levisstar.co.uk

We would like to say a huge thank you to Gavin for taking part in a sponsored swim for Levi’s Star- please sponsor him!

Call Vicky on 07971932610 if you too would like to support us. Thank you!

‘ Things only get better when enough people decide that they should get better. Things only change when ordinary people come together in a shared purpose.’ Kofi Annan

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