Elle's Fight against Cancer.
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In November 2019, Eleanor, (Elle to all her friends and family) started to experience severe pain when walking. Eventually Elle was diagnosed as having small cell cancer in her cervix which had spread to her liver, adrenal gland and the bones of her pelvis. We were told that the cancer was rare and aggressive, it was also incurable. Elle has also suffered from Dystonia, a muscle cramping condition. Elle had overcome this condition to work as a much loved carer in a residential home. She is known for the time she spends laughing and joking with residents and for connecting with them on a human level, often going in on her day off to check on anyone she was worried about.
Treatment
Elle underwent several rounds of chemotherapy, and overcame many challenges during this harrowing time, including surviving a life threatening case of sepsis in the initial stages of treatment. Elle was bed bound for 3 months as the cancer had fractured bones in her pelvis.
Despite the difficulties, Elle continued to have a positive outlook and never stopped making the nurses and other hospital patients and ourselves laugh.
Elle has injections of a drug called Denusomab which has healed her pelvic bones and now she can walk again. Both professionals and ourselves have been delighted at Elle's miraculous progress and this was why her latest news was particularly devastating. On the eve of her 40th birthday we received the news that the tumours in her liver and adrenal gland had not responded to the chemotherapy and that the cancer would shortly become life threatening.
Future
Elle's only hope is now Immunotherapy. This is available from the private Rutherford Cancer Centre in Newcastle. This costs £7860 every three weeks for the foreseeable future, which with associated other medical costs will come to about £136,000 for the first year. This therapy is not yet funded by the NHS, but is commonplace in some other countries. Elle and her family have enough savings for the first three or so treatments but this money will soon be gone, and Elle will depend on this treatment to stay alive. We are hoping that she will find success with this treatment, and pave the way for others to obtain it in the UK. The funding situation is thus becoming urgent.
Elle dreams of being well enough to be able to care for people as she has done all her adult life, this may be just a dream, but it is something to hang on to. Most days Elle passes the Care Home where she used to work and waves to the lovely residents who have sent cards and say that they miss her. Elle's strong faith has helped her to be resilient throughout.
Elle would like to have the opportunity to share good times and make more happy memories with her young nieces when the lockdown is over.
All money we raise will go towards Elle's medical treatment and any surplus will be shared between Cancer Research and St John's Hospice in Lancaster.
Elle in hospital just before the chemotherapy last November. She joked, " No more bad hair days for me from tomorrow."
In November 2019, Eleanor, (Elle to all her friends and family) started to experience severe pain when walking. Eventually Elle was diagnosed as having small cell cancer in her cervix which had spread to her liver, adrenal gland and the bones of her pelvis. We were told that the cancer was rare and aggressive, it was also incurable. Elle has also suffered from Dystonia, a muscle cramping condition. Elle had overcome this condition to work as a much loved carer in a residential home. She is known for the time she spends laughing and joking with residents and for connecting with them on a human level, often going in on her day off to check on anyone she was worried about.
Treatment
Elle underwent several rounds of chemotherapy, and overcame many challenges during this harrowing time, including surviving a life threatening case of sepsis in the initial stages of treatment. Elle was bed bound for 3 months as the cancer had fractured bones in her pelvis.
Despite the difficulties, Elle continued to have a positive outlook and never stopped making the nurses and other hospital patients and ourselves laugh.
Elle has injections of a drug called Denusomab which has healed her pelvic bones and now she can walk again. Both professionals and ourselves have been delighted at Elle's miraculous progress and this was why her latest news was particularly devastating. On the eve of her 40th birthday we received the news that the tumours in her liver and adrenal gland had not responded to the chemotherapy and that the cancer would shortly become life threatening.
Future
Elle's only hope is now Immunotherapy. This is available from the private Rutherford Cancer Centre in Newcastle. This costs £7860 every three weeks for the foreseeable future, which with associated other medical costs will come to about £136,000 for the first year. This therapy is not yet funded by the NHS, but is commonplace in some other countries. Elle and her family have enough savings for the first three or so treatments but this money will soon be gone, and Elle will depend on this treatment to stay alive. We are hoping that she will find success with this treatment, and pave the way for others to obtain it in the UK. The funding situation is thus becoming urgent.
Elle dreams of being well enough to be able to care for people as she has done all her adult life, this may be just a dream, but it is something to hang on to. Most days Elle passes the Care Home where she used to work and waves to the lovely residents who have sent cards and say that they miss her. Elle's strong faith has helped her to be resilient throughout.
Elle would like to have the opportunity to share good times and make more happy memories with her young nieces when the lockdown is over.
All money we raise will go towards Elle's medical treatment and any surplus will be shared between Cancer Research and St John's Hospice in Lancaster.
Elle in hospital just before the chemotherapy last November. She joked, " No more bad hair days for me from tomorrow."
Co-organizers (3)
Peter Wiltshire
Organizer
Steven Wiltshire
Beneficiary
Lucy Wiltshire
Co-organizer