Hi my name is Lauren and I am a member of staff at Williams school and I am also a good friend of his family. I am hoping to raise enough money to get William, his parents and sister to Disney land. I have arranged a fundraiser at Banks hub on the 9th February 2025. All money raised will also go towards the trip to Disney land.

This is a little bit of Williams life story so far.

William was born 4 weeks early, in the first few days he was diagnosed with jaundice and stayed in special care 3 weeks, after he got a regular appointment for check head circumference and when he was 10 months old was diagnosed with Hydrocephalus

And he was given a VP SHUNT.

When he was in the nursery he regularly had headaches and at the hospital they said there was nothing, until one day the pain was severe and we went to Alder Hey and the shunt valve had stopped working.

His 2nd operation took place in April, in December of the same year I made an appointment with the GP for a check up because he had been the same weight for many months and I found it strange that he didn't gain any weight or grow, in that appointment he had a fever and they sent us to the hospital, I explained what had happened and they did blood tests and saw that all the values ​​were low and William had to have some blood and platelet transfusions, and we had to go to Alder Hey to have a bone marrow done.

And it was only in Alder Hey that I started to realize that it was an oncological issue, he was diagnosed on 12/6/2021 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and started undergoing treatment, we were hospitalized for 1 week and returned for Christmas.

And it was from there that our chemotherapy treatment journey began, thank God he is very good at his medicines, there were many times when we had to go to the emergency room and spend days in the hospital due to infections, or side effects of chemotherapy, he underwent 2 shunt operations, many times we had to slow down and stop chemotherapy because the blood was not strong.

But even living one day at a time, without making many plans for the future, we are already reaching the end.

To this day he doesn't understand in theory what cancer is, but rather that it is "one ugly big bug in his blood and needs to take medicine to kill that bug".

He likes the hospital and all the staff so much that to this day he prefers to go to the hospital and sleep in the doctor's bed rather than go to school.