Help support Faiths Journey through Cancer

I am a Mother of a four year old princess who was diagnosed with Cancer on the 1st December 2024

Our Daughters Journey with T cell lymphoblastic lymphoma- Cancer.

'' it's cancer ''

Is the words you will never forget when you told that your child has this horrible disease.

You have so many questions

You feel so many things

You look at your child and you just want to cry

You can not express your emotions enough

You just want to reverse the clock to when everything was normal, when she did not have this disease

We were a normal happy family the four of us ..

Myself, my husband and two children 4 & 7

But this is Faiths story .. at four years old

October 2024

Faith is a normal healthy four year old, with no previous health concerns.

One week in early October Faith became unwell, having symptoms of a sore throat and not eating. We took Faith to the GP, which they suspected she had tonsillitis and prescribed antibiotics. During this period she was off from nursery.

After 8 days of the 10 day course of antibiotics we took her back to the GP as her symptoms were not showing improvement, on this occasion the GP prescribed her another course of antibiotics and said that they still believe she has tonsillitis and she will soon improve.

November 2024

Faith was becoming more unwell, in which this instance we decided to take her to the hospital. On the doctor's observations on Faith, they said something did not sound right and would like her to go for a chest x-ray. This chest x-ray shown she had fluid on the lung with her right lung had completely collapsed, with suspected pneumonia. They needed to treat Faith by giving her IV antibiotics and have a chest drain inserted and to start treating for pleural effusion.

This was upsetting to see Faith this unwell and to be put through so much distress.

Faith spent 13 days in hospital with both of us staying with her every night whilst our other 7 Year old stayed with family. On the 14th day we were told after another repeat chest x-ray the fluid was gone and she could be discharged home with antibiotics and physiotherapy for her lungs. Faith was discharged on the Friday, on the Monday she woke up with what we could describe as a '' breast'' on a chest.

We took her to the hospital, which they done a chest x-ray which shown the fluid was back!

Faith went for a CT scan which now shown she had a mediastinal cancer mass in the centre of her chest.

We were transferred to London St George's where Faith went to the theatres to have a biopsy taken and to have her fluid removed from her lung again. Faith had an emergency chemo-therapy during this procedure.

December 2024

Faith was diagnosed with T- cell lymphoblastic lymphoma on the 1st December 2024.

From her procedure she went into the intensive care unit. It was hard not being able to speak to her and see so many wires coming from her and taking in so much information from the specialists, it all felt unreal! In fact I thought I was literally in a nightmare.

During this period of our stay in London St George's faith had now started her chemotherapy journey, including lumbar punctures and a whole other load of medications. This is the only way to cure her?? You don't have a choice.

Birmingham Children's hospital was our next part of the journey, we stayed here for a week blood transfusion, chemotherapy, antibiotics, x-ray until finally we were discharged home, 3 days before Christmas!

It's scary there's loads of questions along the way, a lot of information to take in

So many internet searches, so many thought's

You think back, analysing faiths life since the moment she was born

January, February, March 2025

Since returning home, we are currently doing weekly hospital trips, different chemotherapy medications and weekly home visits from the community nurses.

Faith has been doing great! We are so proud of her! Just to see her smile and get on with life and play the way she does makes everything better

This is a 2 1/2 year treatment plan ...

so we are only at the beginning of our journey.

We have left our jobs as Faith needs her parents with her every step of the way, amongst all this we have our seven year old son, who also is trying to understand all that is going on.

We are trying our best to make her feel ' normal ' along her Journey.

We aim to raise money to support us a family expenses we once using our earnings for. 

day trips for Faith and a fairytale magical experience for Faith for her birthday this year at Disney Land which is our main priority so we can feel like the princess she is to us! 

We would also like to make a donation to the hospital who have done excellence in her care so far 

Any donation is appreciated, and any support is welcome as it supports Faiths journey and the reality we want to make for her

we want to do so much for her and make her feel special for the amazing little girl she is

Thank you for reading Faiths journey