Help 2 year old Esme cure her luekaemia
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I’m fundraising for my 2yr old cousin, Esme, who is facing her second battle against leukaemia.
A group of friends, family and colleagues and I are taking on the arduous challenge of climbing the 3 national peaks on July 20th in aid of fundraising towards Esme’s treatment.
Esme is just 2yrs 8months old, she loves lions, narwhales and playing hide and seek outside. Right now we have no guarantees she will see her third birthday.
In June 2018 Esme at just 22 months old was diagnosed with high risk acute myeloid leukaemia whilst on holiday. She spent five months as an in-patient in the Royal Marsden and received a stem cell transplant in September after three rounds of intense chemotherapy. After six months of steady recovery, in April we heard the news we've dreaded; the leukaemia has returned to Esme's bone marrow.
We are now fundraising to source a second transplant that needs to happen outside of the NHS, who typically only offer second transplants to patients twelve months on from their first, but due to the aggressive nature of her disease Esme simply may not have that long...
In the US and other private centres, second transplants are offered within one year. For her second transplant the plan would be to use an adult (rather than original umbilical cord) donor and manipulate more 'graft versus host effect' to eradicate the leukaemia - so there is every hope for a permanent cure.
The overall target is £400k which through outstanding support and awareness has reached over £350k.
To read Esme’s story:
https://www.esmelionheart.org/
Thank you so much for taking the time to visit this page and we are so appreciative for any donations.
A group of friends, family and colleagues and I are taking on the arduous challenge of climbing the 3 national peaks on July 20th in aid of fundraising towards Esme’s treatment.
Esme is just 2yrs 8months old, she loves lions, narwhales and playing hide and seek outside. Right now we have no guarantees she will see her third birthday.
In June 2018 Esme at just 22 months old was diagnosed with high risk acute myeloid leukaemia whilst on holiday. She spent five months as an in-patient in the Royal Marsden and received a stem cell transplant in September after three rounds of intense chemotherapy. After six months of steady recovery, in April we heard the news we've dreaded; the leukaemia has returned to Esme's bone marrow.
We are now fundraising to source a second transplant that needs to happen outside of the NHS, who typically only offer second transplants to patients twelve months on from their first, but due to the aggressive nature of her disease Esme simply may not have that long...
In the US and other private centres, second transplants are offered within one year. For her second transplant the plan would be to use an adult (rather than original umbilical cord) donor and manipulate more 'graft versus host effect' to eradicate the leukaemia - so there is every hope for a permanent cure.
The overall target is £400k which through outstanding support and awareness has reached over £350k.
To read Esme’s story:
https://www.esmelionheart.org/
Thank you so much for taking the time to visit this page and we are so appreciative for any donations.
Co-organizers (3)
Poppy Handley-Simpson
Organizer
England
Lily Simpson
Co-organizer
Sophie Shaw
Co-organizer