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Summer Kathryn Allen was born eight weeks early on the 12 July 2008 along with her twin sister Paige Alyson. They spent five weeks in special care due to not being able to feed but, grew stronger each day until we finally took them home. For three years we enjoyed our girls growing up and doing new things, both so happy, smiley and bright. Summer is a very 'girly' girl, she loves pink and purple, princesses and animals. Loved by everybody they meet, they are both kind and polite children. They love all the small things like feeding the ducks and playing with their cats Phoebe and Toby. They both love to perform singing and dancing and even make up their own songs. Summer and Paige started nursery and were enjoying learning new things and making new friends when in November 2011, Summer started to feel unwell.

Soon after, Summer complained of not being able to walk far and pain in her leg and hip. We were worried and took her to hospital, where they did a number of tests. We were told Summer had fluid on her hip and she had an operation to remove the fluid. There were other things though, she had a very yellow eye lid, which was said to have been some sort of bruise and pushed to one side, but I was worried. At the end of December Summer was still complaining of pain in her leg. Her yellow eye lids had got worse and both were yellow . Then one morning we discovered Summer had a very large lump on the top of her head and two smaller lumps on her forehead. We were sent to the hospital in Halifax where they did more tests and finally we were given the worst news imaginable, Summer had a tumour.

We were transferred to Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) where further tests revealed the true extent of Summers cancer. Our little girl was facing the most aggressive type of cancer;Neuroblastoma, and she was already in the final stages, stage 4, High Risk with a very poor prognosis. Our world went very dark.

Summer is now five months into treatment and doing okay, the team at LGI say she is a joy to treat, as she always has the biggest smile on her face which brightens up the ward. The problem is we now understand the limitations faced by the NHS in treating this cancer here in the UK. Although Summer is currently getting through, around 80% of children with High Risk Neuroblastoma will relapse soon after the treatment ends, at which point we would have to face the heartbreaking fact that there is nothing else we can do for her. However, we have learned of other treatments available around the world that will not only give Summer improved chances of beating her cancer first time around, but should she relapse, will give her another chance at survival. She's such a happy go lucky little girl, and so brave, she is our star, she is our inspiration. We have to do this for her, we simply must give her every chance we possibly can, and with your help we can do that. We are working with the charity Families Against Neuroblastoma to build a fund for Summer so we can access anything we might need to get Summer through this. FAN has advised us that should Summer face a relapse in her brain we would need a therapy that costs in excess of £500,000, so that is what we must aim to have ready for her. Please help us. If everyone that heard about our darling Summer donated just £1, we would reach our target. Please donate what you can, tell everyone you know, help us give our sweet little girl the life line she needs.

For further details on ways to donate please visit www.familiesagainstneuroblastoma.org Visit Summer's Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Summer-Allen-page-Help-me-and-beat-Neuroblastoma-Cancer/166646583438401

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

Sarah & Dave, Summers Mummy and Daddy xxx

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