For the past 12 months Freya has been experiencing bad headaches, we've been to see the GP so many times, who kept saying it was migraines. Our appointments went from monthly, to weekly, to me taking her to urgent care. All kept telling me the same thing. Two months ago the vomiting began, 3 weeks ago she also complained of double vision. I noticed a change in her eyes and took her to the opticians the next day. We were sent to A&E, where we sat for 7 hours. Even though we had a referral. They tried to send us home. I stood my ground. They did scans and found the tumor. Within 24hrs our hospital sent us to Oxford Children's hospital, I met with the surgeons who told me if they didn't operate immediately Freya would die, because the tumor was massive and pressing on the Cerebellum and brain stem. They could only safety remove 70% of the tumor. The results of this tumor is a Medulloblastoma, a type of brain cancer. Two days later Freya was rushed into surgery again to install an external drain to help reduce the pressure in her brain, this week they took her for another surgery to remove that drain and install a shunt. Freya has barely spoken since the surgery and now has a wheelchair due to weakness in the right side of her body and fatigue. We head to London on Wednesday to discuss her radiotherapy and have her mask made ahead of her starting treatment. We will then go back to London, which is where we'll stay for 6 weeks. Once we're home we'll be having to travel to and from Oxford children's hospital for her chemotherapy. I am no longer able to work. Freya will be shaving off the remaining hair ahead of having a wig made. I have created this fundraiser to try to help us with some of the costs and to treat Freya to something nice. (whatever she chooses) I know she'd love a switch 2 and could do with a new TV. Being I am no longer able to work in my beautiful role of being an early years practitioner. This is going to have a big financial impact on our family as well as all of the emotional impact which we've already had to deal with. It's been tough and is going to get tougher while Freya is in treatment for the next year. Your support would mean the world to our family.

We love you Freya.

Thank you for reading. X