Notre Dame Walk for Jenna x

Update 27th November 2023:

Thanks to all our friends and family who shared and donated to beautiful Jenna’s funds for treatment.

Unfortunately Jenna went to sleep forever on the morning of Friday 24th November, leaving behind her three beautiful children and her heart broken mum, dad, family and friends

We’ve all struggled to come to terms with her passing this weekend as it’s hard to believe that someone with such a determination to survive could be defeated by this horrible illness. If strength and love could of saved her then she’d of lived forever!

Any money raised up to now and any in the future will go to her three babies to hopefully give them a secure start to life without their precious mum ♥️

All our effort and support is now with Jennas 3 Children as a priority her lovely Mum, Dad, Family and her closest friends.

Love from all Jennas Heartbroken Notre Dame Girls

History of this go Fund :

Jenna has been given 4-6 months to live by the NHS, however there is a treatment that can prolong Jenna’s life.

A large number of former students from the Class of 2006 from Notre Dame are now in desperate last minute bid to try to increase funds ASAP to get their Friend Jenna life prolonging treatment. Jenna Wareing who is heartbreakingly fighting a battle with secondary breast cancer which then spread to her liver, is hoping to receive treatment to extend her time here on earth with her three children.

However, this treatment is at a large cost and we want to do everything we can to help her reach this target ASAP as Jenna does not have much time.

Most of us have not seen each other for 17 years, but Jennas story and her brave, inspirational fight has brought us back together after all these years to help her fight for the chance to live. Notre Dame played a massive part in all of our lives, if it weren’t for the lasting bonds we formed at school we wouldn’t have reconnected how we have to help our friend who so desperately needs to survive.

Our plan: We are doing a sponsored walk starting at the old Notre Dame gates to the MacMillan Support Centre in Southport on Sunday 12th November starting at 9am.

This walk will take roughly 6 hours and we will be walking roughly 19 miles to assist in boosting as much ££ as possible to give Jenna every fighting chance to spend as much time as possible with her three lovely children.

Jenna is an amazing mum to her three gorgeous children, and without this treatment they are going to be left without her. As most of us are now mums ourselves her courage and strength has astounded us and we want nothing more than to help her through the most difficult battle she has ever faced, but we need you to help us help her !

Please donate as much or as little as possible!

Names confirmed for the walk for Jenna on Sunday 12th November 2023 at 9am :

Georgia Gandy, Abbie Cragg, Kelsey Doyle, Rebecca Redhead, Michelle McVey, jenna watt, Vicky Murphy, Leanne White, Jodie Byrne, Brogan Purvis, Faye Burke, Alex Toner, Jessica Blundell, Joanne Lee, Jade McCann, Katie Jordan, Stephany McCartney, Amy Pike, Lorna Rackstraw, Tioma Burton, Jody Knox, Katie Jordan, Danielle McCarthy , Stephanie Wilkinson , Megan Pattie , becky lawson, Georgia shields, sionhan yates, Leah Harrison , Lucy Byrne, Lesley Jackson, Sarah stevens , Nicola duncalf, James deary , Vanessa McGrath, Abigail Jones, Rachael Flynn

(A few further TBC)

We have further fund raisers going on to boost the funds as much as possible as soon as possible, if anyone sees this who can help with anything at all please make contact.

Jennas Journey❤️:

Back in September 2022 our gorgeous friend was unfortunately diagnosed with breast cancer at the young age of 32. She was diagnosed with grade 3 stage 3 cancer. Jenna who is a amazing mum to her three children was fit and healthy. So as you can imagine this came as a complete shock to us all but as always jenna continued living an independent life whilst battling this disease.

The treatment began within two weeks of diagnosis. She endured five months of chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy to fight this disease whilst trying to maintain a normal life as a mother.

Jenna loves travelling & experiencing life as much as she physically can and the last few months made that challenging. As we came to the end of treatment in may 2023 Jenna went away to celebrate her birthday with her two daughters Amelia & Delilah. We were all so relieved that her journey with harsh treatment was coming to an end, and on track for recovery and healing from the trauma of the treatment to her body. After receiving the after treatment plan of monthly injections and hormone blockers and just a simple plan of being monitored, our girl had gotten through the worst we believed and was looking to forward to experiencing life after beating cancer.

At this time a biopsy had to be done due to concerns around Jennas liver. The biopsy was taken and the results came back and Im saddened to say it was unfortunately secondary breast cancer, not only had the cancer spread to Jennas liver but it was at an extremely aggressive rate. None of the treatment plan was working and it wasn’t under control, which remains the case to this day.

For those who don’t know, Secondary breast cancer means this is no longer curable. The purpose of treatment now at this stage is to prolong our girls life here on earth with her three children and family and friends. Jenna was sadly given a prognosis which she was left with no choice but to deliver the news to everyone in her life. The positives to this are after individual research, there are some combined treatments that can try and keep her stable so it doesn’t travel anywhere else in her body. When we received the news about her liver, the treatment (oral medication) she started straight away but after a few weeks she had no choice but to terminate this due to severe sickness resulting in multiple overnight hospital visits and with 3 young children at home it became increasingly difficult.

After biopsies confirmed the spread of cancer Jenna was offered a liver operation to try and remove the lesions from her liver. A high specialist agreed to do this providing he had all of the different contrast scans to pin point every single one of the lesions and then sort out the surgery plan. We was so happy and grateful to hear this was possible and to have a chance of the operation as it’s not always offered due to the liver being compromised with a secondary cancer. It seemed hopeful for this to go ahead because this would provide more control over the disease spreading.

Whilst on holiday with her mum and her children, Jenna got a call to say she couldn’t have the operation and it wasn’t going ahead. There was to many lesions across the segments of the liver which meant if they was to operate they would be risking it spreading further. Secondary liver cancer is not like a primary cancer in the way of how it’s dealt with, there are seven segments to a liver and if the lesions was in one area it would of been a lot more straight forward for the operation to go ahead. Currently the lesions in her liver are across several segments and it wouldn’t be possible to keep a proportion of her liver behind for her body to function properly.

After looking into private care for the operation that the NHS had let her down on she has found some consultants that may help her. Secondary liver cancer specialists are very limited, however there is a specialist in the London Royal Marsden Hospital who is a specialist in Secondary Liver Cancer & breast cancer. The plan is to meet and talk about the operation being performed under private care. There is also specialists in America and in India who may be able to help. As this is all private treatments this is unfortunately not covered on the NHS so we are hoping to raise as much as we can to provide the necessary treatments to prolong Jennas life with her children, friends and her family.

Any monies left over & not used will go to her three children in a trust fund to transition them into life without their mother. Anyone that knows Jenna knows how private of a person she is and it has taken a lot for her to share so publicly not just her diagnosis but her fight and any support, advice & alternative therapies from anybody who could advise in any way possible would be appreciated.

To conclude our gorgeous girl has continued her fight every day since day one and gave her all to give her children as much of a normal life as possible. Jenna is so strong and her children have and will always be her number one priority even throughout her fight with cancer.

Jenna is still here fighting daily and Saturday 14th October was Jennas charity night in the hope to raise as much possible to fund a private treatment that has been found for Jenna.

With limited options left this is our last hope.

If you can help please do, as little or as much as you can ! Very much appreciated xxx