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Iʼve raised £312,504 to Help Florence receive life-saving surgery
- Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
- Funded on Wednesday, 1st March 2017
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Our beautiful daughter Florence is two years old. Tragically, most of her life has been spent in hospital battling cancer.
Florence was first diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma in December 2015 when she was just 16 months old. The news that our precious little girl had cancer came as a complete body blow. But we were determined that this was one fight that cancer wasn’t going to win.
Florence has been having treatment ever since. Her tiny body has bravely coped with 20 rounds of chemotherapy, major surgery, a stem cell transplant and five weeks of radiotherapy. This was all topped off with immunotherapy treatment, which was meant to complete her treatment.
Sadly, our hopes that Florence could soon start enjoying a life free of cancer were cruelly dashed in November 2016. A routine CT scan showed that the tumor was growing again, despite everything that had been thrown at it. And a recent follow-up scan in January 2017 has shown that the tumour has spread into her stomach and has wrapped around her blood vessels.
As a result, the doctors have told us the tumour is too dangerous to remove and there’s nothing more they can do. But we can. And we will. We owe it Florence to fight on, just as she is bravely doing. But we have to act fast.
We will now seek advice from a top neuroblastoma surgeon in New York. His name is Dr Michael. P. La Quaglia (feel free to Google him) and he has a fantastic record of successfully treating cancer patients with cases similar to Florence; cases that other doctors have given up hope on.
Unfortunately, we require around £250k in order for us to travel to the US and pay to have surgery that will save her life. And time is not on our side. If you can spare any amount, no matter how small, it will dramatically improve Florence’s chances of living to see her third, and many more birthdays.
Thank you,
Carolyn & Rod
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- 8 years ago
Rodney Jackson
8 years agoWe would like to thank everyone for their continued support. We would like to close the Just Giving site at the end of this week. This gives people time to donate as there was a function only last weekend. If people wish to donate after the site is closed down they can do so by getting in touch on flo@flosfight.com With regards where all the money is going. We would like to set something up in Flo's name and there is the completely underfunded research into neuroblastoma itself but we havn't finalised anything at this stage. Thanks again. R X
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- 8 years ago
Rodney Jackson
8 years agoFlorence sadly lost her fight with cancer at 1am this morning, she was such a brave beautiful girl who fought so hard unfortunately neuroblastoma has won she has left a huge hole in our hearts that will never be filled, but at least she is at peace and the cancer is no longer killing her RIP Flo Flo 10.07.14 - 11.02.17 R, C and C xxx
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- 8 years ago
Rodney Jackson
8 years agoHi guys Sorry for the lack of update florence had a bad night last night and a very restless day today I am exhausted,she still is unable to have chemo as her billrubin levels are too high chemo is two weeks late now which I concerned about,cannot really see the billrubin coming down anytime soon ,they have increased her pain relief as I think there are several things going on with her tummy causing it to be big,we have ouf very own magician coming in tomorrow which I am hope she will appreciate,feeling nervous about the ct scan on Wednesday
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Anonymous
Feb 28, 2017
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Scot Jeffers
Feb 27, 2017
From all the Teamwear team at Canterbury, very sorry for your loss which we were made aware of through our association with Richard Bradbury.
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Feb 26, 2017
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Ann and David GGp
Feb 25, 2017
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Anonymous
Feb 25, 2017
Hopefully, you will get heal soon
Alison Dunster
Feb 24, 2017
Our thoughts and prayers are with your family at this sad time. What a beautiful little girl.
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Anonymous
Feb 24, 2017
Sincere condolences on the loss of your brave little girl. Flo and her family are an inspiration to others.
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