In loving memory of Jaymen Woolston

Jaymen was a happy, outgoing and loving little boy who loved cars, diggers, planes, Paw Patrol, Blaze and his big sister, Harlow. But his mum and dads world came crumbling down when he was diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma just short of his second birthday. At that point, Jaymens parents were told he had a long-term survival chance of just 40%.

At 22 months old Jaymen started to show flu-like symptoms which doctors believed was a viral infection. Shortly after, he had stopped walking and was clearly in lots of pain.

We just didnt know what to do. It was horrible seeing our little boy in so much pain and nothing seemed to be getting better.

At hospital after further investigation, which included scans and lots of tests, the news was broken to Jaymens parents that he had stage 4 high-risk neuroblastoma. Jaymen had a tumour on his spleen but the disease had spread to his skull, jaw, arms, legs and chest. His arm was also fractured due to the disease in the bone.

Our world came crumbling down. We just couldnt believe it was happening and all of this cancer had taken over so much of his body. We felt completely broken, says Jordan.

Jaymen spent a lot of time in hospital having chemotherapy, stem cell harvest, endless tests and a major operation to remove as much of his tumour as possible.

He had high-dose chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy. After over a year of treatment, end-of-treatment scans in 2020 showed Jaymen was no evidence of disease.

Sadly further check-up scans showed Jaymen had relapsed and he passed away on 26th May 2021.