Abigail was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour about the size of a golf ball in June 2004 when she was 8 years old.
After surgeries to take the pressure off her brain and remove the tumour she had to be treated with radiotherapy. So from August 04 she had to go to Christies hospital every weekday for 6 weeks, this caused all of her long hair to fall out. To everyone's surprise she did not want to wear the wig she had been given but chose to let everyone see she was bald.
In September 04 she started a course of chemotherapy that lasted 54 weeks and had to have a tube inserted into her tummy to support her feeding via a pump while on treatment she also had a box fitted under her skin for all of her injections to go into.
Chemo was awful she lost a lot of weight and vomited a lot. But still she was as cheeky as ever and even managed to do some fundraising.
Abigail finished her Chemo in September 05 and was feeling well enough to go back to school full time and to see Santa in Lapland in December.
To bring you up to date.....Abi had all of her tubes took out in July of this year (06) her hair has started to grow back and she is putting on weight slowly. We have had 3 clear MRI scans and are hoping that she will not need any more treatment.
Now the family are looking forward to the arrival of our baby girl who is due to join us at the end of September 2006 just before Abigail's 11th birthday.
The past 2 years have been hard not only on Abi who was sick but her little brother who has been passed around family while we have spent time in hospital. He has had to deal with as much as everyone else but has handled things very well and is the most understanding 5 year old I know.
Brothers and sisters are often forgotten when a child becomes seriously ill as you have to focus so hard on getting your child better you forget everything around you.
Her illness has taught us to take each day at a time and to really appreciate how special children are (even when they are pains) you never know what is around the corner so treasure every moment you can.
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