Hi everyone my name is Zoe I'm starting this go fund me page for an amazing girl my daughter shes been through so much in her short life fighting brain cancer for the past 6 years. One of her dreams is to go to disney world and I'm hoping to get some help to make her dream come true, what ever you can donate big or small will be much appreciated and please share this on all your platforms. Nicole has started her own tiktok so she can tell her side of all this ( @hollamate088 )

Thank you for taking the time in reading about my amazing daughter ❤️

On the 28th June 2019 I found out that my 6 year old daughter Nicole had a pilocytic astrocytoma brain tumour coming from inside her brainstem that is rare and it could paralyse or even kill her if grows the wrong way, she's gonna have this for the rest of her life how ever long that will be is anyone guess.

She started off having really server headaches and vomiting, developing more symptoms several months later. she started to tilt her head to the side, shaking her head and was having loads of absent seizures and having times where she would go funny on her feet and lose her balance.‍

Since then Nicole has had 13 surgerys her first surgery was a biopsy to see what we was dealing with the surgery lasted 9 hours.

Then after a couple of weeks in hospital we could go home we was only home 2 days before we ended up back in hospital because the fluid in her head built up so she had to have an EVD put in and turned out she also had meningitis of the brain, after a week the EVD started leaking and had to be removed and a new one put in, then a week later got a hickman line placed witch they only put a single one in so they could start her 18 months of chemotherapy. Once her infections had gone she then had her 6th surgery to get a shunt but then since that day she has had issues with her breathing needing oxygen and stopped breathing when she was asleep, so needed a life support machine to keep her alive, she was on this for 2 years. She also started throwing up blood so had to go for surgery again to get a camera down her throat to see where it was coming from but nothing was found.

September she had a G peg placed because her swallow was now affected and had to have a new Hickman line put in and is now in intensive care due to her breathing poorly where we stayed for 3 months. They then found a second tumour at the bottom of her spine witch luckily now gone. In December just 5 days before Christmas nicole lost her best friend Larsan due to a Brian tumour and attended his funeral in January 2020 this devastated nicole. Then life got harder when covid hit as we were so so scared nicole would catch it and become unwell so we had to stay in and not go out even stopped online. Then in May 2020 nicole lost her other best friend caleb as there was nothing else to doctors could do this broke nicole and she wouldn't talk to anyone it's been hard but we are getting there Nicole's chemotherapy of 18 months ended in March 2021 then nicole could finally go back to school in May and had her last surgery in june to remove her hickmen. Nicole was then classed as someone living with cancer as her tumour couldn't be removed, we was scared anytime she was unwell thinking its all starting again.

Nicole made it 2 years without treatment before becoming ill once again with headaches and vomiting she went for an MRI in march 2023 and we found out her tumour was growing again an reached 25% of its size, I had to then break the news to my now 10 year old. We spent about 4 weeks in hospital Nicole had to have 2 surgerys to put in a port line as the first one broke within 24 hours this was so they could start chemotherapy as soon as possible this one was for 16 months luckily she could still attend school but missed one day a week due to have chemotherapy and had some time off when she was ill, she also lost all her hair for the second time. We have had alot of ups and downs but we got there, her chemotherapy ended on the 31st July 2024 and through August we could see her getting her strength back and looking so much better.

She started high school in September 2024 and was loving every minute of it, but unfortunately started getting ill at the end of September, we didn't think much of it as first as its that time of year for bugs and she also had tonsillitis. I did inform her doctors but they wasn't to worried either, over the next 3 weeks nicole started felling worse and wasn't really in school either I keeped her off or school sent her home. Her headaches started getting worse and she was vomiting more also to the point she threw up fresh blood all over my toilet on the 20th October 2024 I took her to the hospital were they did a CT scan and X-rays we then got told acouple hours later they can see her tumour growth on the CT scan witch isn't good at all as normally they can't be seen on them, I then had to tell my now 11year old her tumour is growing again and her fight isnt over she broke down crying, witch broke my heart, we got blue lighted to Southampton hospital Nicole's main hospital where they did an MRI to confirm the growth we was hoping they got it wrong as it was only 12 weeks since she ended her second round. We had to wait to thrusday to find out what was gonna happen moving forward, we then got informed Nicole's tumour had grown over 40% of its size in such a short time. We are now home but they are wanted to start her chemotherapy as soon as possible witch will be this Wednesday 30th October, this chemotherapy will be 12 months long and she will get it ever 2 weeks, this is Nicole's last chance we are still coming to terms with this news yet again. Nicole never lets any of this get her down I'm so proud to be her mum she is so strong brave and amazing.

I know we have a very long road ahead of us but the strength and courage my daughter shows everyday give a me hope‍‍‍‍