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In November 2014, our 4yr old daughter Phoebe began having unusual vomiting episodes. My wife and I became concerned so we took her to our GP. She had only just started school full time in the previous September and the doctor suggested maybe these episodes were stress related or a form of acid reflux. To be safe. urine and stool samples were taken but nothing out of the ordinary came back. 

A couple months later in January the symptoms developed into headaches and vomiting. We made another doctor's appointment for early February, an appointment which she never made as she was rushed into hospital via ambulance after a violent headache on February 2nd. She was admitted to hospital that evening and tests revealed a brain tumour about the size of a golf ball at the back of her brain. The next day she underwent a 9 hour surgery to remove this tumour.

Over the next several weeks she remained in hospital recovering from surgery and learning to do virtually everything again. Walking, talking, writing, etc. In that time period doctors told us that her tumour was a Medullablastoma, a grade 4 highly aggressive form of cancer. Once she recovered enough from surgery she began high dose radiotherapy. After the radiotherapy finished she began high dose chemotherapy, during which she remained in isolation in the Sheffield Children’s hospital. After nine months of treatment she is now home and healing up well from everything. Many of the side effects from such intense treatment are very serious and life long.

The staff at the Sheffield Children’s hospital were phenomenal and we wouldn’t have our daughter with us today if it weren’t for them. That’s why I’m running and raising money for this world class institution. Please give generously!

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