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Sky dive for our baby girl Nyla battling leukemia

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Hi my name is Sheena and I am going to be doing a sky dive for my 6 Year old daughter who has been battling Leukemia for the past 21 Months. She was diagnosed at 4 years old on August 4th 2022 with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. The money raised will go towards Nyla's dream holiday and the rest I would like to donate a percentage towards 3 charities to say thank you for everything they have done for us during our hardest times and for other families suffering. The charities chosen are Owen Mcveigh, Chics, and young lives vs cancer. My daughter is still on treatment and her treatment is due to end on September 1st 2024. I have chosen to do the sky dive jumping 15000ft on August 29th as August 28th is the last day of her Methotrexate treatment which she has had an extremely difficult time taking each week. I want to do this skydive as I am terrified of heights, but it is nothing compared to what my baby girl has had to go through. I have watched my daughter suffer tremendously having at least 15 blood transfusions, 13 operations, constantly hooked up to machines, multiple injections, ecg's, Ct scans, Ultrasounds and 6 extremely harsh intense chemotherapies. She has spent a total of 168 days in hospital so far. As a mother feeling helpless the only thing I could do was remind her how brave and strong she is and I want to show her how her bravery and strength inspires everyone around her to be just like her. Nobody can prepare you for the impact it has on your life and the damage it has done to my daughters mental, physical and emotional health. Anybody who has had the pleasure of meeting Nyla knows she is the happiest little girl with the sweetest heart. Watching her deteriorate Infront of me, losing her hair, eyelashes, eyebrows, the side effects from the steroids including swelling in her face, not having the strength to be able to walk or even lift her head off the pillow at times, seeing how unrecognizable she was has been heart shattering. Nyla's childhood has been completely taken away from her, due to been on treatment and been immunosuppressed she was unable to go to Disney for her 5th Birthday, we have been unable to leave the country and we must remain close to the hospital. She has been unable to attend school she missed all of reception and majority of year 1, she couldn’t play with all her friends this was extremely isolating for her. Nyla had a central line permanently fitted which is put under the skin of the chest and into a vein close by, one end of the line went into a large vein just above the heart, the other end came out of the chest. This meant she was unable to bathe correctly or even go swimming as you cannot get it wet as you could imagine this was extremely difficult for a little girl. The central line is the main cause of sepsis, therefore exceptional care needed to be taken with the line. 10 Months into Nyla having the central line she developed a severe infection in her central line and was rushed into emergency theatre for it to be permanently removed. I cant describe or put into words how traumatic and life changing this has been for Nyla and the family. My sweet little girl is a true inspiration to us all, always helping others whilst fighting the toughest battle in the world. I want to do this for her to show her how much she is loved and how proud I am of her. I want my baby girl to have best time enjoying life, making up for lost time and making precious memories when treatment finally ends on September 1st 2024.
No donation amount is too small. All funds will be directly used towards Nyla's dream holiday and the 3 charities mentioned above. Thank you all in advance for helping me share Nyla's story and continued support towards Nyla's battle.
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