Help Paula get the cancer treatment she needs!

Hello, my name is Ashlea.

My family and I are raising money for my mum who was diagnosed with bowel cancer in March 2021.

My mum (Paula, 53) has been undergoing chemotherapy for over a year. When mum was diagnosed, Christie’s found a rare condition (DPD deficiency, where she has an inability to detoxify) through her blood tests and

was told she would only be able to cope with 50% strength of chemotherapy.

Her first round of chemo completely floored her as it started attacking her bone marrow and white blood cells therefore that round of treatment had to be cut short, the doctors tweaked the chemo and mum has been managing exceptionally well, still really fatigued but constantly fighting.

Fast forward to November 2021 she went for scans where she was told she was responding really well and that the tumour had shrunk. We were extremely relieved however mum was still on the borderline for being able to have an operation to remove the tumour.

In January 2022 mum met with the surgeon to discuss the operation and the risks that came with it, the surgeon needed more scans to confirm her cancer treatment was still working to determine if she could press on with the operation but the results came back that the tumour had now grown and they suspect has also spread to the liver, so the chemo had stopped working and she is now sadly inoperable.

We need to raise money to get my mum to a cancer clinic in Germany which specialises in personalised treatment. She would undergo intense treatment over 21 days where they are hopeful they can kill all the cancer cells.

Mum is running out of treatments being offered to her in the UK due to the complexity of where her tumour is.

We have been sent the quote from the private clinic and would like to get the ball rolling with it asap.

Any help would be incredibly appreciated.

My mum is our rock in our family and I never would have imagined me having the create one of these pages to ask for help in raising money to try and get her health back.

She is 53 years young, has 3 beautiful grandchildren and one on the way but most of all she has so much left to give, so much still to do, she’s still so young and really deserves to have a proper chance at saying ‘I beat cancer’.

Thank you with all my heart for reading and hopefully donating.