Hello, my name is Tracey and I am Adam's mum.

Our gorgeous son Adam is just 14 years old and facing the biggest battle of his life. Earlier this summer, he was diagnosed with Ewings sarcoma, a rare and aggressive bone cancer. A cancer i had never heard of, and although rare, they do see around 30 cases a year in the UK. Most of the time it can be diagnosed quite late into it, and can easily spread to lungs/chest, pelvis, spine. Adam full body MRI scan confirmed no other tumors, so is localised to just his arm. Adam had no symptons to even suggest this, apart from a few days of pain twice over about 6 weeks. With Adams level of activity and being a teenager and a number of falls off his bike, it would of been very easy to dismiss this pain as a sports injury. Even now he has no pain in his arm, but the chemotherapy is what makes him poorly now, which is hard for a child to understand. Ive had to put working on hold while ive become adams full time carer.

What began as pain in his arm, after having had a fall off his bike back in march, something we thought might be nothing serious and linked to his fall, turned out not to be the case, but instead a tumour.

Since then, Adams’s life has changed completely. Instead of focusing on school, friends, and all the normal parts of teenage life, he is now undergoing intensive chemotherapy and spending long weeks in hospital in Bristol. In around five months’ time, he will be scheduled for major limb saving surgery on his arm, depending on how chemotherapy goes and the tumor has shrunk.

Adam has now had 2 full on chemotherapy sessions, 1 being 48hrs and 2nd one 6 days. This will continue for 9 sessions with about 11 days rest between, until dec/jan time, which he will then have surgery. We been told they most possibly will remove some bone from his leg and put into his arm, rather than metal. Then he will continue to have 5 more chemotherapy sessions. Even though Adam is showing me great bravery and has so done so well with the treatment, he has lost his hair already and trying to get him to currently leave the house to go for a walk seems to be impossible. The worry of what impact this will have on him with missing so much school of year 10 and how this will impact his GCSEs.

Before his diagnosis, Adam was active, fun-loving, and full of energy. He plays football for Mitcheldean U15s, which he loved, and also loved nothing more than getting out into the forest onto trails with his mountain bike with his mates. He also has a love for aviation and motor sport. From his first meeting with the consultant his life got put on pause, no football, no bike.

We have been truly humbled by the amazing care of our great NHS, and believe that he is in the best place possible, however, due to a number of friends and family querying whether we would set up a go fund me page, we have done just that, in an effort to be able to grant him a wish beyond his imagination to put that smile back on his face. One wish would to be to fly to Dubai or Abu Dhabi on an A380, and maybe even go to a formula one race there.

As a family, we would never have imagined setting up a fundraiser like this. Asking for help does not come easily to us. But right now, we simply cannot do this alone, and every bit of support means the world.

Every donation, no matter the size, will go directly towards making Adams’s journey a little lighter, even if we cant make his wish happen, at least we can decorate his room to make it more comfortable for him, with new wardrobe, and new carpet/flooring, and maybe a holiday to America, he has some crazy ideas of wanting to go to as many countries as possible.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for supporting Adam and walking with us through this journey ❤️