Maddy by her Mummy Dawn

Maddy’s Story

This is a story of our beautiful brave little girl, who has had one hard year – yet still manages to smile. This is a story of how our life was once normal, now has changed forever.

It began on Sunday 23rd of May 2010, when we (Mummy & Daddy) saw that Madison …

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Rylee by her Mom Nicole

Rylee’s Story

On the 27th January 2010, our lives were torn apart as our then 16mth old was diagnosed with a malignant Stage 4 Brain tumor known as Medulloblastoma.

Rylee has undergone 2 major surgeries to remove the tumour; 4mths of intensive chemotherapy; another surgery for the placement of a shunt and 30 sessions of radiation. …

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Dakota by her Mom Christy

Dakota’s Story

Dakota was born a healthy baby. She began to walk when she was 10 months old. Like all babies do when they learn to walk, Dakota fell a lot. However, she had such trouble walking that she stopped trying to walk and she reverted back to crawling. Then, she started stumbling while crawling …

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Megan by her Mom Julia

Megan’s Story

Our story began last summer when our 12 year old daughter, Megan found a lump in her left thigh. The doctor was sure it was nothing to worry about but sent her for an ultrasound scan. They then sent her for an MRI scan and were unsure of the diagnosis. We were …

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Harris' Journey by his Mummy Tanya Ross

Harris’s Journey

Our treasured Harris was born 14th April 2009.  He was so healthy and alert from the start.  Harris loved his food and only needed a short nap during the day.  He didn’t want to miss a thing!

Harris was always so beautiful, sparkly and full of character.  He met milestones super early and loved …

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Ross Anderton's Story by his Mom Lesley

Ross’ Story

Early June 09 we had noticed that Ross, our 18 month old son, had a puffy area on his lower right eye.  We took him to our GP who said it was probably a blocked duct and would refer Ross to the eye pavillion for clarification.

5 weeks later Ross’ eye started to get bigger, so …

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Thomas' Story by his Mom Becca

Thomas’ Story

Thomas was born on 25th April 2001 a beautiful, healthy little boy.  All was great until late autumn of 2003 when he started to appear generally unwell, he was off his food and constipated, had a swollen stomach and kept being sick.  I took him to the GP’s 6 times and was told …

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Memphis' Story by his Mom Chauntel

Memphis’ Story

Memphis Reigns Teal was born healthy and had a great 1st year, but shortly after his first birthday in August of 2005 things started to change.  I started to notice he wasn’t pooping on a regular basis.  He was on a pretty bland diet due to lactose intolerance and food allergies, so I …

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Jazmine's Eulogy

Jazmine

Our beautiful Jazmine is one of the faces of the Be Child Cancer Aware campaign.  Jazmine bravely fought Ewings Sarcoma a type of bone cancer for 3 years but lost her courageous battle on 6th November, 2010.  Our hearts and thoughts are with her Mommy & Daddy, Jade and Wayne and her little sister, …

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Haydn by his Mom Sharon

Haydn’s Story

Haydn was a typical 12 year old boy settling nicely into high school. There were concerns at school over his concentration so he was referred to a specialist who diagnosed ADHD. To us he was Haydn – our first child. We didn’t know any different. He enjoyed scouts and its hands on activities …

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